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The impact of climate change is rippling through the mortgage industry, prompting calls for a more proactive response to the growing number of challenges.

One product aims to make it easier to customize connections with consumers, another helps with vendor management and a third helps size up collateral.

Higher conforming loan limits for Fannie and Freddie, a review of the FHLB system and revised multifamily lending goals are among the recent FHFA developments.

While mortgage and real estate startups currently face a challenging environment in seeking investors, some companies are finding venture capital.

The most attractive cities this year count more homes selling under their listing price rather than over it.

In a Jan. 1 reshuffling the mortgage giant also promoted its former wholesale chief to chief revenue officer of Rocket Mortgage.

The impact of a weakening economy on quarterly performance will become clearer by the second week of January as banks begin to report fourth-quarter earnings.

Increases in values were more likely to stick across the Central U.S, while pandemic boomtowns experienced the biggest declines in median housing costs, according to Realtor.com.

The sleepy Federal Home Loan Bank System is under intense scrutiny as critics push for more oversight and increased affordable housing while supporters say the system works well for member banks.

Headlines about devastating layoffs and major mergers got the most traction with the industry in a year marked by rising interest rates and sinking originations.