Freddie Mac

A securities settlement, portfolio asset sales and greater interest among smaller lenders helped Freddie Mac compensate for potential losses from the catastrophic hurricane season.

Fannie Mae is testing a conforming loan product that makes use of a New Hampshire law that lets manufactured housing in resident-owned communities get treated like units in a co-operative building.

Rents have increased rapidly across housing markets as the share of renting households has risen faster than the number of new units.

Mortgage rates reached their highest level since July and are closing in on 4%, according to Freddie Mac.

Most secondary market outlets, along with the non-qualified mortgage lenders, remain reluctant to lend to legal cannabis workers because of the source and nature of their compensation, but opportunities are beginning to emerge.

Cannabis businesses are legal in 29 states, but compliance questions on the federal level are keeping mortgage lenders from making loans to the industry's workers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency added a language preference question to the loan application, rejecting the mortgage industry's wishes.

Mortgage rates ticked down for the first time in two weeks as the 10-year Treasury yield fell to its lowest point in October, according to Freddie Mac.

The way lenders need to submit payment information on certain student loans in order to calculate a borrower's monthly debt-to-income ratio is changing at Freddie Mac.

In a moment of rare unity, the Independent Community Bankers of America and National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions sent a joint letter to FHFA arguing to stop the GSEs' profit sweep.