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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and four fintechs want the agencies to act on the White House's executive order on artificial intelligence.

The top five states have more than 403,000 housing units approved to begin construction in 2024, according to LendingTree.

The disaster underscores Americans' dangerously low levels of flood insurance coverage, especially away from coastal areas. 

State housing finance agencies had a resurgent fiscal 2023 and the recent fed funds rate reduction could have a mixed impact on them, Fitch Ratings said.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued guidance to ensure the Federal Home Loan banks are lending based on the credit worthiness of the member bank, not solely on the quality of the collateral.

The core personal consumption expenditures price index increased 0.1% from July, and on a three-month annualized basis, it rose by 2.1%.

Some recipients of the new multimillion-dollar funding announced this week include several organizations partnering with historically Black colleges and universities.

Specialized Loan Servicing allegedly charged borrowers $7.50 for processing mortgage payments made by phone. Most servicers, including Newrez, have axed this fee.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed measures designed to bolster consumer protection rules. The bills target several issues that have also been percolating at the federal level.

The 13 largest homeowners insurance underwriters denied almost half of their climate-related claims last year, adding to property owner and mortgage servicer woes.

New single-family home sales decreased 4.7% last month to an annualized rate of 716,000 after rising at the fastest pace since early 2022, government data showed Wednesday.

"A slight upward turn reflects a modest improvement in housing affordability, primarily because mortgage rates descended to 6.5% in August," NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said in a prepared statement.

Affordability improved for a fourth straight month, but questions remain about whether recent trends will bring a significant number of buyers into the housing market.

Mortgage bankers feared a proposal related to lenders' access to a major secondary market and related reporting was too harsh. They're eyeing a redraft closely.

Mortgage rates being at a two-year low has not moved potential buyers off the sidelines, Freddie Mac says, but Redfin says demand for home tours is up.

The nation's largest single-family landlord owns over 84,000 homes outright.

Matthew McQueen, Head of Municipal Banking and Markets and Global Mortgages within the Global Markets business at Bank of America, sits down with Bond Buyer Executive Editor Lynne Funk to talk about getting deals done amid an uncertain global macroeconomic landscape.

Both parties reached an undisclosed agreement to settle all litigation in mid-September.

CV3 Financial Services, started by long-time business purpose lending executive William Tessar, just celebrated one year in business and topping the $1 billion mark.

The program lapsing would've precluded mortgage applicants from closing on home loans without the required coverage in federally designated flood zones.