Housing

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appears likely to embrace a recent plan to merge Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single government corporation if she wins the White House.

Sales of previously owned homes increased in April to a three-month high, led by a surge in the Midwest and indicating further improvement in the housing market during the busy spring-selling season.

Compressed inventory and lackluster homebuyer sentiment thanks to tight credit availability has hindered the housing market from performing at its full potential in April, according to First American Financial Corp.

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The number of zombie foreclosures, properties in the foreclosure process that are vacant, dropped 30.1% from a year ago during the second quarter, according to RealtyTrac.

Fannie Mae forecasts flat to declining 30-year mortgage interest rates this year and next, while Freddie Mac thinks they will increase.

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, introduced legislation Thursday to reform consumer credit reporting.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a proposal Wednesday to codify recent changes to its reverse mortgage program and to provide additional protections for seniors, including a cap on annual interest rate increases.

Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area, the epicenter of the U.S. technology boom and housing-affordability crunch, hit an all-time high last month.

New-home construction rose in April, extending a pattern of gains and losses that signals the homebuilding industry is contributing little to economic growth.

Confidence among homebuilders held steady in May, signaling limited progress in residential real estate during the busy spring selling season, National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo data showed Monday.

Mortgage applications for new home purchases slipped 11% in April from the month before, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Foreclosures continued to decrease in the first quarter, while delinquencies remained flat from the previous quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Homeowner estimates still outpace appraiser valuations across most of the country, but the gap between the two appears to be shrinking.

The number of homes at some stage in the foreclosure process dropped in March to its lowest level since October 2007, according to CoreLogic.

Consumer confidence in the housing market rebounded in April from an 18-month low the month prior, Fannie Mae reported Monday.

Home prices climbed in 87% of U.S. metropolitan areas in the first quarter as buyers competed for a tight supply of listings, the National Association of Realtors said.

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American International Group's mortgage insurer, United Guaranty Corp., is seeking to raise about $700 million to $800 million as it sells shares to the public, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mortgage insurer Essent Group reported higher net income for the first quarter of 2016 as premium growth outpaced rising expenses.