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The Southern California wildfires are causing additional inventory shortages in what is already a tight housing market, Redfin said.

The Obama administration had tried to ease restrictions on the Federal Housing Administration's condominium program, but the agency under President Trump is seen as moving more aggressively.

The share of new refinance mortgage applications reached its highest point since January, but overall activity fell compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Supply constraints tempered real estate and title professionals' outlook for the home purchase market over the next year, according to First American Financial Corp.'s fourth quarter Real Estate Sentiment Index.

The risk to Canada's financial system from tapped-out borrowers is merely shifting — this time to a market where there's no oversight from the country's national bank regulator and new stress-test rules don't apply.

Freddie Mac is broadening its capital markets vehicles with its first offering of participation certificate securities backed by multifamily tax exempt loans.

The House Financial Services Committee, by a vote of 60-0, approved a bill amending key provisions of the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008.

November sales of existing homes rose more than 5% in metro Milwaukee, even amid a continuing shortage of houses on the market.

Home sales in metro Toledo, Ohio, in November rose 2% over the same month a year ago, but home sale prices fell, according to a report released by the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.

A lower Manhattan office building that serves as the headquarters of the New York Department of Financial Services is the largest loan in a $891 million CMBS from UBS.