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Still overvalued — that's the latest assessment of the Dallas housing market by one of Wall Street's big ratings firms.

The number of single-family homes sold in the Tampa Bay area during August rose 2.8% when compared with the same month last year, according to Florida Realtors.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 20.

The proposed reforms of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten all the attention, but the administration also wants to scale back the Federal Housing Administration, expand its capital cushion and adopt risk-based pricing. Some of the ideas have former agency officials concerned.

From Manhattan to Denver, here's a look at 12 housing markets with the highest monthly rent, making home buying potentially more attractive to consumers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is ending a Freddie Mac pilot that posed a competitive threat to the private market for mortgage servicing rights financing.

The dollar volume of financing to buy fix-and-flip properties increased 31% annually to its highest level since the heights of last decade's real estate boom, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Flagstar Bank expects to recover $1 million of its loan to defunct reverse mortgage lender Live Well Financial following the sale of the collateral that secured it.

Mortgage rates had their largest week-to-week uptick since October 2018 as bond market investors reacted to positive news about the economy, according to Freddie Mac.

Sales of previously owned homes rose in August to the highest in more than a year amid lower borrowing costs and sustained income gains, adding to signs the housing market is breaking out of a slump.