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Senate Democrats are warning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be careful as it considers changes to its mortgage underwriting rules.

The low mortgage rates of August drove new homebuyers to cannonball into the purchase market compared to the year before, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A mortgage industry executive with ties to a firm penalized in a U.S. predatory lending crackdown is being considered by the Trump administration to run Ginnie Mae, according to people familiar with the matter.

If the bonds are approved in March, the junk-rated city plans to issue $250 million of new money, unlimited tax general obligation bonds in 2020.

The residential construction market is giving off conflicting signals about whether the nation is heading toward a downturn, according to BuildFax.

The popular program could go idle next month for the second time in less than a year if lawmakers are unable to approve a $99 million credit subsidy.

Lower rates and signs that more affordable housing inventory is being built drove Fannie Mae's 2019 origination numbers higher in its latest forecast.

The FHFA can go beyond a recent Trump administration report to level the playing field between the private sector and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Sentiment among homebuilders climbed to the highest in almost a year on stronger current sales momentum, adding to signs that lower mortgage rates are giving the industry a boost.

It would cost nearly $30 billion to rebuild the tens of thousands of homes that are most vulnerable to wildfires in the Sacramento metropolitan area, a projection that ranks California's capital region fourth highest in the nation for wildfire risk, according to CoreLogic.

It appears a relatively good time to be a homebuyer in the Portland, Ore., area.

Canadian home prices recorded their biggest gain in more than two years, and sales advanced for a sixth straight month in another sign of health in the country's real estate market.

With the qualified mortgage patch expiring and a recession likely, wealth inequities that have hurt black and millennial homeownership could worsen, according to the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

Property values recovered, and in some cases even surpassed housing bubble peaks, but the same can't be said for waning new construction activity, which won't return to historic norms for years, according to Zillow.

With the ongoing issue of the affordable housing crisis, the Mortgage Bankers Association got behind the Build More Housing Near Transit Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives.

While the critical defect rate for closed mortgage loans fell on a quarter-to-quarter basis, there were increases in income and packaging-related deficiencies, an Aces Risk Management study found.

Banks in Denmark have seen their aggregate profits sink this year, according to calculations by the industry's main lobby group, which has repeatedly urged monetary policy makers to provide relief from long-term negative interest rates.

If warning signs of a possible U.S. recession are currently flashing, Valeria Kremser doesn't see them in the Philadelphia housing market.

Reverse mortgages are surging in Canada as more older people join the country's debt bandwagon.

For the third time this year, the monthly median sale price for single-family homes hit a new high for Maui County.