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The Rhode Island Association of Realtors said that the number of single-family houses sold in June was down 14.6% from the same month a year ago.

The consumer agency alleges Townstone Financial's CEO and president made statements on a radio show discouraging applicants living in Black neighborhoods from seeking home loans.

The company wants to provide financing to those who purchase its homes in Colorado, Georgia and Texas.

The Pittsburgh bank says fewer borrowers are asking for help and that many borrowers who received assistance are making payments again. But with the coronavirus pandemic still raging in much of the country, CEO William Demchak and other bankers are tempering their optimism.

The Minneapolis company said 75% transactions have been handled online since the pandemic hit.

Any intention that Ginnie Mae may have had to slow prepayment rates by changing the rules on RPLs seems to be thwarted by the grim economic reality facing the big banks.

The South Florida housing market is experiencing its highest overvaluation in eight years. Still, a housing crisis is unlikely, one expert said.

Strong growth in refinance volume following several weeks of so-so activity drove a 5.1% week-to-week increase in mortgage applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A top Federal Reserve official is issuing a warning about fast-growing and largely unregulated shadow lenders: They were a big factor in why central banks had to save markets earlier this year, and much more needs to be done to assess the risks posed by the sector.

The City of Frisco has experienced a major population boom in the past few decades and has earned the title of fastest-growing city several times by the U.S. Census Bureau.

A recent ruling declaring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s structure unconstitutional signaled that a similar outcome awaits the Federal Housing Finance Agency. But the FHFA will argue in a new case that it does not deserve the same fate.

He co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance, Public Advocates and the Greenlining Institute.

The rise in late and suspended payments following the coronavirus outbreak in the United States may have helped the FHA realize it's high time to improve the process.

The council created by the Dodd-Frank Act to identify systemic risks launched a review of the market as part of an activities-based approach that shifts focus away from targeting individual firms.

Home purchases in markets outside of cities accounted for some of the San Francisco bank's loan growth. Executives believe this will be a long-term trend because a generous supply of inventory in less populated areas will appeal to buyers.

Mortgage applications to purchase new homes were up 54% compared to the same month the year before.

The banks logged strong year-over-year growth in gain-on-sale margins for mortgage loans.

Down payment assistance programs remain an important tool for increasing minority homeownership, but especially more so because of the pandemic.

After a couple of months of steep double-digit declines, Central Texas home sales rebounded in June across the Austin area, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

The share of Dallas-Fort Worth area homeowners who are behind on their mortgage payments is spiking with the pandemic.