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While Fannie Mae sees improving buying and selling conditions, more consumers still think prices will rise over the coming year.

As lenders expand into HELOCs, fraudulent activity is up. Here's what lenders need to know to protect borrowers and their portfolios.

Afordal unifies the home search process for consumers by giving them access to live rates, pre-approvals and property-specific special financing.

Following an appearance on Fox Business by NAHB's CEO this week, the U.S. Lumber Coalition labeled the homebuilding trade group a Canadian ally.

Even with the four basis-point drop, the 30-year fixed rate mortgage remained at levels last seen in February as the Spring homebuying season reaches its climax.

Funding for Volo Loans, which assists U.S. homebuyers in Costa Rica, comes after recent polling showed a significant share of Americans open to moving abroad.

Wall Street is cranking up the bond machine as US homeowners, finding that buying a new house is out of reach since mortgage rates started climbing in 2022, are instead getting home equity loans and sprucing up their current properties.

Closed-end home equity volume was up 13% year-over-year in the fourth quarter, outpacing HELOCs originations, which only grew 8%, TransUnion reported.

The publicly traded firm said it anticipates more deals after making its first loan to a developer for $32.7 million, which will support 156 homes in Houston.

Marianne Lake will oversee strategic growth and the company's fast-growing overseas consumer bank. 

The Treasury market experienced unexpected volatility in April after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, but recovered after the moves were delayed. Some see that as proof of resilience in the market, but others say it highlights vulnerabilities.

The San Francisco-based bank was long hamstrung by a regulatory order that kept it under $1.95 trillion of assets. Now Wells can hit the gas on business lines it had kept idle.

The top five lenders had an average retail mortgage origination volume of more than $5 billion, as of the end of the first quarter of 2025.

The product, as well as the housing market, is different today than what it was two decades ago, where some feel it was a cause of the financial crisis.

The combined prices of properties on the market for more than 60 days currently make up close to half of total unsold dollar volume, according to Redfin.

The question of when the CEO would retire and who might succeed him has hung over JPMorganChase for years.

The top five banks had a combined wholesale volume of more than $18 billion at the end of the first quarter.

Homeowners today can pay around $100 less per month, than they did at the same time last year, to borrow $50,000, according to Intercontinental Exchange.

The tentative mergers, valued at a combined $11 billion, are the next big phase in Rocket's plan to become a "one-stop-shop" mortgage originator.

The regulator has postponed the building code in question, but is otherwise battling the challenge raised during the Biden administration.