Housing

Mortgage applications dipped 3.4% from a week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Home prices continued to increase nationwide in March, led by double-digit percent gains in Western states, according to the CoreLogic.

Freddie Mac won't make a dividend payment to the Treasury Department after declining interest rates and widening spreads on investments triggered a $354 million first-quarter loss for the mortgage finance giant.

Amalgamated Bank in New York has started offering down payment insurance to homebuyers in a move it hopes will set it apart with highly mobile millennial borrowers.

Home price gains across the country are reducing the positive benefits homeowners will feel from low rates, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

A healthy housing market is expected to buoy purchase mortgage volumes this year, while rising rates will put a damper on refinancing, according to a report from rating agency DBRS.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway expanded its bet on residential real estate as his company's Clayton unit acquired Goodall Homes.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would authorize state insurance commissioners to approve flood insurance policies for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other federally backed mortgages.

Arch Capital had a 77% increase in the mortgage insurance segment's operating income, and its U.S. unit saw its new insurance written increase by 34%.

The nation's housing markets may be finally getting over the foreclosure crisis, but for many Americans the anger hasn't subsided.

Mortgage rates hitched a ride with rising Treasury yields this week, according to Freddie Mac.

Indianapolis is the best market for first-time homebuyers right now, according to research released Tuesday by Zillow.

Though parts of the country are still struggling to return to benchmark levels, many of the housing markets across the U.S. showed signs of improvement in February, according to Freddie Mac.

NMI Holdings lost $2.5 million in the first quarter, an improvement over a first-quarter 2015 loss of $7.8 million, which is a sign the private mortgage insurer remains on track to become profitable later this year.

Clayton Holdings reported a $3.7 million pretax first-quarter loss, but Radian's mortgage insurance business had pretax income of $140 million, a 10% increase over the prior year.

An across-the-board increase in mortgage interest rates accompanied a decline in loan applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

More Americans than forecast signed contracts to purchase previously owned homes in March, an encouraging sign as the housing market was entering its busiest selling season of the year.

Federal Savings Bank in Chicago has acquired the assets of ICC Mortgage Services in Westbury, N.Y.

Flagstar Bancorp reported an increase in net income during the first quarter, mainly on higher interest income and a larger release of loan loss reserves.

It's taken nine years, but the number of U.S. homes in foreclosure has fallen to a level not seen since before the 2008 housing crisis.