Economy

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's new low down payment loans products may not represent such a risk to the Federal Housing Administration program as some have feared.

Fannie Mae priced its final risk-sharing offering for this year of Connecticut Avenue Securities bonds for $1.45 billion.

Becoming a continuing education instructor for real estate agents is a way to develop new referral sources and get more business.

Only eleven months after cheering Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt's confirmation, Senate Democrats are fed up with the pace of reforms at the agency.

MountainView Servicing Group will serve as an advisor in the sale of a $1.2 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

Going from 5% to 3% may seem like a small difference, but depending on the details, it could mean thousands of new buyers into the market.

Here is an another product to offer your clients who are new to their homes or who have recently refinanced.

The U.S. Treasury and the federal overseer for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should consider ending government control of the two companies if Congress fails to reform the housing-finance system, Sen. Tim Johnson said.

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Groundbreaking for single-family homes climbed in October and permits for all future projects reached a six-year high to signal construction will add to economic growth in early 2015.

TD Bank's first Consumer Borrowing Index found that only about half of Home Equity Line of Credit borrowers are using their loan for home improvements.

Experian said that the average nationwide credit score climbed 2 points from last year, to 666.

According to an independent poll commissioned by Discover Home Loans, 89% of homebuyers use some form of online technology during the process of purchasing a home.

The company will launch a nationwide branding campaign in the first quarter of next year.

Confidence among homebuilders rebounded in November as low interest rates and a strengthening job market helped boost sales.

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Because the FHFA drew down vast amounts of taxpayer funds to "pay" for accounting provisions that would later be reversed, the GSEs remained saddled with in senior preferred stock that paid a dividend rate of 10%, until that rate was revised upward.

Colony American Finance has acquired a $165 million portfolio of acquisition lines secured by single-family homes from Archetype Credit Opportunity Fund.

Low demand coupled with low interest rates and a focus on simplicity and transparency led to the change.

A report due next week on the Federal Housing Administration's financial health is expected to show that the agency's reserve fund has significantly improved over the past year.