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As head of Fannie Mae's single-family mortgage business, Andrew Bon Salle wants to ease the burden of loan-level price adjustments, streamline condo loan approvals and expand rep and warrant relief. But even he admits there are limits to his power.

Ginnie Mae will help issuers with certain servicing obligations if more than 5% of their portfolios are in areas Hurricane Harvey has ravaged.

The 4,443 single-family rental homes securing Starwood Waypoint Homes 2017-1 have an average age of 30 years, older than any previous transaction by the sponsor, but are bringing in more than $1,700 apiece in monthly rent.

Carlyle Group LP was exonerated in a lawsuit tied to the collapse of a mortgage fund from 2008, avoiding $1 billion in damages sought by the pool's liquidators.

The legal logjam involving a pair of distressed properties in Garfield Heights, Ohio is starting to clear, after more than eight years of litigation and stagnation.

From payment forbearances to financing to start the rebuilding process, here's a look at five ways homeowners affected by Hurricane Harvey can get mortgage help.

The volume of homes sold to first-time buyers during the second quarter reached a high not seen since 1999 and accounted for more than half of purchase mortgage originations.

Damages have typically not been a "disruptive problem" with hurricanes because of commercial properties' insurance, Trepp reports, but expiring leases of major tenants and the energy industry fallout have already had an impact on Houston-area office buildings.

Houston’s hotel market, already the worst-performing in the U.S., is poised to take a further beating from Hurricane Harvey as the natural disaster creates chaos in a city that’s been reeling from low oil prices for the past three years.

If mortgage rates rise slowly as the economy continues to grow, the impact from the Fed’s unwind on housing likely will result in a decline in refinancing activity.