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The agency is still moving forward on key regulations dealing with payday lending and mortgage underwriting despite new demands posed by the crisis.

In the Philadelphia metropolitan area, new listings are down almost 43% from March 1 to April 5, when the number of new listings typically grows by roughly 52%, according to Zillow.

Homebuilder sentiment plunged in April to the lowest level in more than seven years as the coronavirus pandemic kept potential buyers quarantined and paralyzed construction in much of the country.

We need to be doing everything possible to ensure those that needed down payment assistance are able to keep their homes during this crisis and beyond.

Declines in mortgage servicing rights valuations at JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo point to the resurgence of a dilemma that came up during the last downturn.

The Borrower Protection Program enables the two agencies to exchange information about loss mitigation efforts and consumer complaints regarding specific servicers.

Home sales and prices in San Antonio kept rising in March, but a slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic may lie ahead.

While home showings in the Twin Cities have plummeted in recent weeks and sales of upper-bracket houses are sputtering, first-time buyers are still in the market.

The nascent market for private U.S. mortgages is teetering on the brink of collapse as the coronavirus crisis imperils years of work to lessen the government's role in home lending.

The volume of COVID-19 forbearance requests has risen rapidly as operational processing has improved and hold times have contracted, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Purchase originations will recover somewhat in the third and fourth quarters as home sales pick up.

The coronavirus has started to take a toll on the Treasure Valley's still-hot housing market, but you wouldn't know it from the latest home-price data.

Even before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of single-family homes on the market in Santa Fe County, N.M., was the lowest it's been since officials began keeping such data in 2005.

January saw the lowest mortgage delinquency rate in over 20 years, according to CoreLogic.

North Texas housing starts and new home sales surged in the first quarter, but most of those gains came before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the area's economy.

By helping borrowers now, banks hope customers can quickly catch up on payments once the coronavirus pandemic ends. If they can’t, interest income will remain low and charge-offs could pile up if the crisis drags on.

Lenders that split their sales of loans and servicing between two different investors may be facing yet another challenge due to the coronavirus outbreak.

At issue is whether the U.S. should step in now to save nonbank mortgage servicers to head off damage to the housing market.

Researchers predict that the rate will rise in step with unemployment rate projections.

FHFA head Mark Calabria and his FSOC counterparts need to sit down with the Treasury and fashion an emergency capital plan for the GSEs.