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Changes affecting market pricing and court actions with game-changing potential were among the leading policy developments in housing finance last year.

Federal regulators will look to finalize capital rules for banks with at least $100 billion of assets. Here's what to look for as the contentious regulations move through the rulemaking process.

The A1 tranche of $172 million (66.8%) is rated as AAA by Fitch and KBRA.

Workers who switched companies have disparaged their former employer to its homebuilder partners, the suit claims.

Chicago businessman David Izsak grifted several financial institutions out of $4 million by taking out phony home loans and other types of credit.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is now allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to each invest up to $1 billion annually with certain conditions.

Lawsuits entangling the industry's biggest brands drew a lot of attention and venerated leaders dishing on today's landscape were closely read too.

The so-called core personal consumption expenditures price index barely rose in November and trailed policymakers' 2% target by one measure, reinforcing the central bank's pivot toward interest-rate cuts next year.

Money has been squeezed out of the market by central banks fighting to get an inflation surge under control. That's made borrowing more expensive for governments, corporates and consumers, and could keep denting spending well into next year.

Purchases of new single-family homes decreased 12.2% to a 590,000 annual pace last month, a one-year low, government figures showed Friday.

Freedom Mortgage and UWM are looking to beef up their headcount, as the Fed signals interest rates will drop.

Median homes in the top three cities in this ranking are being sold on average 12 days faster than the year before.

The credit grader lowered Brookfield Property's score by two steps to BB from BBB-, the lowest level of investment grade, and the rating remains on negative outlook.

FHA-insured and Department of Veterans Affairs-guaranteed mortgages bear watching next year, according to Intercontinental Exchange.

The title company was also attacked in 2019 and joins Fidelity National and Mr. Cooper among recent victims.

The American Bankers Association requested that President Joe Biden tell Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to study the impact of more robust bank regulation.

Recent pullbacks in interest rates have lowered monthly payments, but amounts needed still make home buying unaffordable by most standards, according to new reports.

Rates that have been below 7% for two consecutive weeks have given originators a gift at what's typically a slow time of year, Freddie Mac said.

Even if lower rates boost inventory and shift sales from new to existing homes, these companies are well-positioned to deal with the change, analysts said.

The effects of expected lower mortgage interest rates are boosting a lot of different facets of the housing market.