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Despite lower interest rates, both purchases and refinances declined after recent surges, while average loan amounts have gradually crept up to start the year.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's data-access rule could create an uneven playing field because banks and credit unions are examined by regulators but hundreds of nonbank fintechs are not.

Despite 2022's slew of interest-rate hikes from Chair Powell and colleagues, financial conditions are the loosest since last February as investors bet fading inflation will allow the central bank to soon cease raising borrowing costs and then cut them later this year.

Repo markets and the bank deposit business, in particular, would be upended if the U.S. were to default on its debt, experts say.

Wells Fargo kept Chief Executive Charlie Scharf's pay at $24.5 million for 2022, a year in which both profit and stock tumbled and the bank continued to grapple with the fallout from a raft of scandals.

Despite the significant annual increase, home buyers saw signs of affordability returning in the latter months of the year.

But late borrower payments slightly grew in November, with 18 metro areas reporting an increase, up from six metro areas in October, CoreLogic's report found.

The U.S. economy expanded at a healthy pace in the fourth quarter, though an extended salvo of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes is seen jeopardizing growth prospects this year.

Mortgage prepayment rates also fell to a new low for the third consecutive month in December, according to Black Knight.

Volumes came in higher for purchases and refinances, as well as for both conventional and government products.

Foreclosure prevention actions overall fell for the sixth time in seven months in October, according to the FHFA.

The reductions in the multifamily goals for 2023 to 2024 compared to those from the period before suggest that these goals will have little, if any, impact on the GSEs' multifamily operations in future years, writes a former principal economist with the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The Federal Reserve's quantitative-tightening program risks being propelled toward an early end as U.S. politicians bicker in Washington over raising the national debt limit, according to some economists and bond market participants.

Working appraisers say government efforts to curb discrimination are pressuring them to inflate values, putting banks and borrowers at risk.

An extension would give the companies an additional six months beyond a current March deadline to complete the transaction.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said the Federal Reserve has a long runway for its balance sheet reduction.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said officials have not completed their aggressive tightening campaign to reduce stubborn price pressures.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expects mortgage servicers to offer streamlined loss mitigation options to borrowers experiencing financial hardship — even if it's not related to COVID-19.

Fannie Mae has selected five organizations to share in a $5 million pilot program aimed at expanding and promoting affordable housing and Black homeownership.

Both government and conventional activity have picked up to start the year, as higher conforming amounts came into effect.