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Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 14.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has appeared willing to take its own steps to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but legislation would be necessary to create an explicit guarantee of the mortgage system.

Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and another Democratic senator are asking whether Kushner Cos. "may have received special treatment" on a U.S.-government-backed loan of about $800 million.

The Indiana company, which has an acquisition pending, will make more loans in minority neighborhoods around Indianapolis.

The interpretation by HUD, conveyed in a letter to Congress by Assistant Secretary Len Wolfson, appeared to contradict the agency's earlier comments about borrowers in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Despite the Fair Housing Act going into effect 51 years ago, LGBTQ+ still face discrimination when buying a home or applying for a mortgage.

Appraisal Logistics is letting mortgage lenders take the lead by licensing out its in-house technology platform, AIMPort.

Lower interest rates and slower price growth helped to boost mortgage applications to purchase newly constructed homes during May, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Ally wants to increase productivity and improve the use of analytics to build on customer relationships.

Housing prices in Boulder County are plateauing despite a low inventory, according to the latest data for May from the Colorado Association of Realtors.

Mortgage rates remained unchanged as investors' concerns over U.S. foreign trade policy, which triggered the previous week's drop, were moderated, according to Freddie Mac.

The Houston housing market logged another solid month in May as buyers closed on 8,346 homes, up 2.8% from a year ago, new data shows.

A Western Union survey claims consumers are unable to tell the difference between humans and interactive voice response or artificial intelligence when needing customer or payment assistance, but their responses may say otherwise.

Bills to fix the National Flood Insurance Program and combat the money-laundering risks from shell companies enjoyed bipartisan support during a House Financial Services Committee debate.

Approximately two-thirds of millennial and Gen-Z renters expect to purchase a home in the next five years, although their aspirations for homeownership slipped from a year ago, a Pulsenomics survey found.

OBX 2019-INV2 is a private-label RMBS pool of 1,087 of agency-eligible investor-property loans.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding continued rising, aided by low mortgage rates and the steady incline of property values, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A new startup launched in the Bay Area says it can help buyers survive the region's cutthroat housing market by doing away with one of its biggest hurdles — a massive down payment.

Director Mark Calabria urged lawmakers to grant the agency chartering authority similar to that of bank regulators to boost competition in the mortgage market.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., cited research that found algorithmic lending can lead to higher interest rates for minority borrowers.