Economy

Most South Florida median home prices continued their inexorable march upward in August, while the number of sales in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties declined year over year.

While no one is suggesting that the plan will help banks regain the share they've ceded to nonbanks, bankers believe that stabilizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could at least help them keep what they have.

Industry groups are calling on the consumer bureau to eliminate the debt-to-income limit for “qualified mortgages” and provide a short-term extension of special treatment for Fannie- and Freddie-backed loans.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates should stay at historically low levels in the near future even as economic uncertainty over trade affects U.S. businesses, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

A mortgage company's dispute with Connecticut over what tasks a licensed loan officer needs to handle points to a potential compliance concern for direct and digital lenders seeking to maximize efficiencies.

The recapitalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac prior to the 2020 election is unlikely even if the net worth sweep ends, according to a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report.

Denmark is about to become a test case for what happens when banks start charging a lot of customers to store their money.

Maine homes have sold at a near-record pace this year through the month of August.

Commercial real estate transaction volume rebounded in the second quarter from a poor first three months of 2019, although property price growth plateaued, according to Ten-X Commercial.

The number of single-family homes sold in the Tampa Bay area during August rose 2.8% when compared with the same month last year, according to Florida Realtors.

From Manhattan to Denver, here's a look at 12 housing markets with the highest monthly rent, making home buying potentially more attractive to consumers.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is ending a Freddie Mac pilot that posed a competitive threat to the private market for mortgage servicing rights financing.

The dollar volume of financing to buy fix-and-flip properties increased 31% annually to its highest level since the heights of last decade's real estate boom, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Any progress made with loosening housing inventory was lost as a high demand of buyers scooped up homes from the market, but sales still slipped from a year ago, according to Remax.

Existing-home sales exceeded their market potential again in August, and the improvement may continue for some time before there's a correction, according to First American.

Freddie Mac is partnering with Finicity to give lenders access to a new automated process that advances efforts to consolidate borrower-authorized data validation checks used in the secondary market underwriting process.

The residential construction market is giving off conflicting signals about whether the nation is heading toward a downturn, according to BuildFax.

Lower rates and signs that more affordable housing inventory is being built drove Fannie Mae's 2019 origination numbers higher in its latest forecast.

It would cost nearly $30 billion to rebuild the tens of thousands of homes that are most vulnerable to wildfires in the Sacramento metropolitan area, a projection that ranks California's capital region fourth highest in the nation for wildfire risk, according to CoreLogic.

Canadian home prices recorded their biggest gain in more than two years, and sales advanced for a sixth straight month in another sign of health in the country's real estate market.