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Credit unions continue to press the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for regulatory relief, arguing that existing exemptions have not gone far enough.

A new tariff on Canadian lumber threatens to further disrupt homebuilding at a time when lenders are increasingly concerned about a purchase mortgage resurgence that has failed to materialize.

The former treasurer of an Oklahoma City homeowners association has been charged with eight felony counts of embezzlement.

Guild Mortgage is reaching out to millennials who often have higher debt-to-income ratios and lack down payments with a grant that allows them to put just 1% down.

Home-price growth in the Portland area is slowing down, but rising prices here still outpace most of the nation's major cities.

Mortgage rates inched lower for the third consecutive week and set a new low for the year, according to Freddie Mac.

Fannie Mae's credit risk sharing transactions since 2013 have grown to the point where the total for the unpaid principal balance transferred has reached $1 trillion.

A real estate investment fund controlled by the Blackstone Group is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to refinance a portfolio of life science, laboratory and medical properties.

Wayne Francis, the lawyer and real estate speculator captured while hiding in a Connecticut hotel room over the holiday weekend, was presented in court Tuesday on a larceny charge and held on a $2 million bond.

Three former Nomura Holdings mortgage-bond traders accused of cheating their customers called no witnesses in their defense against fraud charges, betting that prosecutors’ evidence is too weak to convict them.