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The Federal Housing Finance Agency is now allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to each invest up to $1 billion annually with certain conditions.

The so-called core personal consumption expenditures price index barely rose in November and trailed policymakers' 2% target by one measure, reinforcing the central bank's pivot toward interest-rate cuts next year.

Money has been squeezed out of the market by central banks fighting to get an inflation surge under control. That's made borrowing more expensive for governments, corporates and consumers, and could keep denting spending well into next year.

The American Bankers Association requested that President Joe Biden tell Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to study the impact of more robust bank regulation.

Recent pullbacks in interest rates have lowered monthly payments, but amounts needed still make home buying unaffordable by most standards, according to new reports.

With a tough winter predicted for lenders, servicers may struggle making timely principal and interest payments to investors, industry stakeholders warn.

The Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are suing a real estate developer over an alleged bait-and-switch land-sale scheme near Houston. The developer used TikTok and other social media sites to lure Hispanic immigrants into predatory loans, the government alleges.

Activity fell despite an ongoing slide in rates, but elevated interest in VA loans, particularly refinances, managed to lift the government-sponsored index higher by a fraction, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

A proposed reduction in the amount of overall discretionary spending amounts would hamper both agencies' ability to fulfill their affordable-homeownership missions, the consortium of housing industry advocates said.

Bostic said he expects the US central bank will cut rates twice in 2024 — in the second half of the year — as inflation continues to slowly decline.