Housing

The market capacity for existing-home sales rose 0.4% in August compared to the previous month, according to First American Financial.

Lenders are easing loan standards across all types of mortgage products, according to Fannie Mae's latest survey of mortgage lenders.

Policies that seek to increase homeownership by extending more credit to homeowners are misguided, according to former Federal Housing Finance Agency chief Edward DeMarco.

Conforming mortgage rates barely budged this past week as the industry awaits news from the Federal Reserve Thursday afternoon regarding a potential rate hike.

New-home construction fell in August, indicating the real estate recovery will take time to evolve.

A report to examine the conditions surrounding last year’s unrest in Ferguson, Mo., is calling for officials to strengthen poor minority communities’ access to banking services and restrict the prevalence of predatory lending to reduce crime and poverty.

Refinancings as part of the total origination market rose slightly in August, according to Ellie Mae.

Mortgage applications dropped 7% from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the period ending Sept. 11.

Confidence among homebuilders rose in September to the highest level in almost a decade, signaling momentum in residential real estate will support growth in the second half of 2015.

A survey from Wells Fargo and Gallup has found that investors continue to take advantage of low interest rates.

California lawmakers passed legislation to change the way communities wind down their shuttered redevelopment agencies, leaving cities and their advocates trying to tally the effects of the last-minute bill.

Wells Fargo has set a goal to originate $125 billion in residential mortgages to Hispanic borrowers by 2025.

The free market wouldn't plop down a trailer park just a few miles from downtown San Jose. At least not today, in a sharply spiking housing market that has made the metropolitan area one of the most expensive in the U.S.

A unique public-private program in Dane County, Wis., uses shared-appreciation mortgages to develop new affordable housing units more effectively than other traditional financing options.

American Advisors Group has begun marketing a jumbo reverse mortgage loan over a year after it first planned to issue them.

Evans Bancorp in Hamburg, N.Y., has agreed to pay $825,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of mortgage redlining.

California's already tight housing market is facing another long-term complication: drought.

Homeowners are more pessimistic about the future of the housing market, while renters worry if they'll be able to afford to buy a home, according to a Zillow survey.

Interest rates head steady this week despite the monthly jobs report falling short of expectations, according to Freddie Mac.

Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry said banks could consider loan-to-value ratios above 90% to help revitalize areas hurt by the housing crisis.