Down payments

First-time homebuyers using loans backed by private mortgage insurance soared in the fourth quarter on the growing popularity of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's 3% down payment options, according to Genworth.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where it takes the longest for homebuyers to save up enough money to make a 20% down payment on a house.

Bay Area home prices are out of reach for many middle-income families, but surely if you're a highly prized engineer at Apple or Google you can afford a house here, right?

The only thing that might be colder than Toronto in January is the city's housing market.

Here's a look at 10 cities where the fewest house hunters have prime credit.

Here's a look at the 10 housing markets where the most homebuyers have prime credit scores.

CMG Financial is offering a new affinity marketing portal on its crowdfunding platform for down payments and positioning it as a way for employers to retain millennials.

Millennials who want affordable home prices in an urban market may want to check out the Gem City.

To succeed in an era of increasingly narrow margins and broad competition, mortgage lenders must be methodical about loan fulfillment and take a "less is more" approach to designing workflows.

The median down payment for single-family homes purchased with financing has reached a new high in the third quarter, according to Attom Data Solutions.