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Mortgage rates fell for the first time in a month, cutting costs for buyers during the housing market's busiest time of the year.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council is encouraging mortgage agencies to continue clarifying when lenders must repurchase defective loans.

Radian Guaranty has added two national account managers and an inside sales account management team to work strictly with its credit union customers, their members and their trade associations.

Weak economic growth in the first quarter did not temper Freddie Mac's projections for the mortgage market for the full year.

The proposed legislation for regulatory relief seeks to roll back critical mortgage protections put in place to prevent another housing crisis.

The Rural Housing Service should merge with the Federal Housing Administration to save money and improve service, the head of the Government Accountability Office testified Tuesday.

Lost in the debate so far over Shelby's regulatory relief bill are the significant changes it makes to the housing finance system. It essentially takes consensus elements from multiple past stabs at reform, leaving out the most controversial parts and making future reform far easier.

Fannie Mae is planning to follow the lead of its rival, Freddie Mac, and offer securities with exposure to actual losses on the single-family mortgages that it ensures.

It's a good idea to raise the asset threshold at which financial institutions are automatically designated as systemically important financial institutions. But Sen. Richard Shelby's proposed legislation for regulatory relief does require one crucial change.

Progress Residential plans to tap the securitization market with a deal backed by a $438 million, five-year loan that pays only on interest, which is secured on a pool of 3,317 single-family rental homes.