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Ongoing weakness in housing markets and the economy has now driven purchase activity to its lowest level since 2015, while overall application numbers decreased for the 10th time in 11 weeks.

"The main threat we see is coming from the CFPB, where the single director can act as judge, jury, and executioner, all in one," said Bob Broeksmit, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association

Fannie Mae announced a pilot rollout of a new special-purpose credit program, while Freddie Mac said it is expediting review of similar new programs from lenders during the Mortgage Bankers Association conference this week.

The day after the FOMC announces its policy decision, Christian Scherrmann, U.S. Economist at DWS Group, will offer his take on the meeting, Fed Chair Powell's press conference and what comes next.

The agency expects one in five borrowers to be eligible for the new pricing benefits.

The government guarantor's securitization platform went offline on October 19 and will reemerge on October 25.

But a cooling housing market opened up buying opportunities for some and helped drive the share of FHA-backed purchases upward for the first time in a year, according to new Attom research.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rules and enforcement actions to date could be open to legal challenges by banks and other companies after a three-judge panel deemed the agency's payday lending rule unconstitutional because of the way the agency is funded, legal experts say.

The companies formed a partnership in 2019, in which the lender would handle mortgage processing, underwriting and closing for the digital-only bank.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned a lower court's ruling, declaring the agency's funding structure and its 2017 payday lending rule invalid.

Higher interest rates are driving borrowers to adjustable-rate loans, which saw close to a 13% share in weekly activity, the highest since 2008.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's tangible capital rule could prevent some banks from accessing advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank system in a rising interest rate environment.

The agency is currently using upper ceilings set in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

New-home mortgage applications fell 13.2% on an annual basis, while average purchase sizes declined for the fifth straight month.

Ramon Richards discusses Fannie's tech roadmap for 2023, retaining tech personnel, and relying on third party vendors

The Federal Home Loan banks and their clients were well represented in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's recent "listening tour." The public, not so much.

President Joe Biden's White House engaged in mathematical gymnastics on Thursday to draw some positive news out of an otherwise gloomy inflation report — one of the last that voters will see before they decide control of Congress in November.

Rent of shelter and owners' equivalent rent each accelerated 0.8% in September from the prior month, the most since 1990, according to Labor Department data released Thursday.

The American consumer is "in good shape" and spending more this month than a year earlier, even amid inflation, jittery markets and international tensions, according to Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan.

Rising interest rates could force some community banks to fall below a critical capital threshold that the Federal Housing Finance Agency uses to determine eligibility for Home Loan bank advances.