Fannie Mae

Fannie Mae could be worthless to public shareholders, according to its newest analyst.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s plan to study the market explains very little about which activities or firms, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will be designated as systemically important. Here's some clearer guidance.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance dropped for the fifth straight week, as the growth rate plummeted 38 basis points between July 6 and July 12, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency will extend the same GSE benchmarks of the past three years into 2021.

A strong housing market prior to the pandemic and the subsequent coronavirus-related moratorium helped to pull foreclosure activity down to historic lows in the first half of 2020, though that could all change soon, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The surge of COVID-19 cases in much of the nation put a hold on reopening the economy, adding risk to the housing market, First American said.

A recent ruling declaring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s structure unconstitutional signaled that a similar outcome awaits the Federal Housing Finance Agency. But the FHFA will argue in a new case that it does not deserve the same fate.

The rise in late and suspended payments following the coronavirus outbreak in the United States may have helped the FHA realize it's high time to improve the process.

The council created by the Dodd-Frank Act to identify systemic risks launched a review of the market as part of an activities-based approach that shifts focus away from targeting individual firms.

The number of loans going into coronavirus-related forbearance fell for the fourth consecutive week, as the growth rate plummeted 21 basis points between June 29 and July 5, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.