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Guild Mortgage, which originated loans on some of the first manufactured homes eligible for new lower-rate Fannie Mae financing, anticipates demand for this housing type will continue to grow this year.

Hawaii's commercial real estate market is taking a breather from record sales last year, a new report shows.

As the affordable housing crisis comes to a head, the Mortgage Bankers Association put up opposition to the "not in my backyard" mindset by getting behind the Yes, In My Backyard bill introduced in the House of Representatives.

Freddie Mac is increasing the number of companies offering merged reports from the credit bureaus through integrations with its Loan Product Advisor automated underwriting system.

Don't believe what you see on the cable shows — home flipping is a tough business.

Prospective Bay Area home buyers abandoned the market in August, as home sales dipped to a nine-year, monthly low despite falling interest rates and more choices.

The switch to a buyer's home purchase market, as well as fewer natural disasters helped drive the five-month-long decline in mortgage application fraud risk, First American said.

The three federal banking agencies moved to raise the threshold for residential transactions that require an appraisal from $250,000 to $400,000.

Neither boom nor bust, the Palm Beach County, Fla., housing market ended the summer selling season with a steady but unspectacular performance.

Caught in the middle of a credit-subsidy debate, the program would have shut down on Tuesday without congressional action.