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The Flagstaff, Ariz., housing market has consistently seen high prices for single-family homes over the years, and the coronavirus didn't stop the median price of a home from rising 6%.

Even the spread of a pandemic failed to cool off Albuquerque's home price growth in March.

Ginnie Mae will begin taking requests for assistance from issuers who, having exhausted all other options, are having trouble advancing borrowers' principal-and-interest payments to investors amid the pandemic.

North Texas home sales and prices continued to rise in March from a year earlier, but last month's home sales snapshot mostly reflects contracts signed in January and February, before the pandemic hit.

Homebuilders in the Twin Cities kept the construction spigot open during March amid growing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Demand for San Diego County homes has waned in recent weeks as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the real estate industry.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending April 10.

Forbearance requirements under the CARES Act raised immediate concerns about servicing advances and performance, but experts suggest there are other outcomes to brace for, too.

The Federal Reserve's $2.3 trillion loan stimulus includes plans for outstanding commercial mortgage-backed securities and newly issued collateralized loan obligations.

With the onset of the pandemic, real estate agents say deals that were in the works are encountering all types of problems, creating havoc in the market as buyers try to back out of contracts.

Mortgage rates remained flat from last week, but are expected to fall further as they continue to lag changes in 10-year Treasury yields, according to Freddie Mac.

Fitch assumes a significant spike in defaults over the next few months, as well as declining new issuance volume during the second and third quarters of 2020, fewer maturing loans and fewer resolutions by special servicers.

Social distancing, stay-home orders and a worsening economic crisis are upending Houston's housing market.

If rising flood waters were the right analogy last time around, this time a tsunami is probably a more accurate description of the wave of delinquencies about to come.

The lender is one of many taking advantage of the disruption in the market to grow their businesses.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Treasury secretary that the Financial Stability Oversight Council should create a liquidity facility to deal with a flood of forbearance requests brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bay Area real estate agents in February eagerly welcomed big crowds packing open houses — and the renewed bidding wars and growing sale prices.

Lenders and community groups say it's a mistake for the banking agencies to move forward during a national crisis. But Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting says updated Community Reinvestment Act rules would speed relief to neighborhoods and small businesses.

Mark Calabria needs to be working to secure a Fed facility for servicer advances and to support, not denigrate, smaller servicers, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Jamie York has taken the helm at Neighborhood Mortgage Solutions as CEO Greg Wischmeyer prepares to retire.