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The groups and industry trade associations want the Treasury Department and the FHFA to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to build up capital reserves.

Implementation of the second phase of the common securitization platform had been projected for next year, but the anticipated time frame was delayed following "lessons learned" from the first phase.

Detroit was once known as a city where a working-class family could afford to own a home. Now it's a city of renters.

South Florida's housing market may not be as frenzied as it was a few years ago, but the February figures from local Realtor boards show that sellers are still winning the price fight.

After a powerful surge in home and condo prices in Chicago during January, growth settled down in February and is expected to keep a moderate pace through the spring selling season.

Orange County, Calif., home sales dipped in February, a time when sales typically rise, a new housing report shows.

In Broward County, Fla., median home sale prices increased and inventory on the market decreased in February.

February homes sales fell 2.6% in Wisconsin, but a shortage of homes on the market is leading to higher prices.

The number of homes in foreclosure across Washington is down by nearly 40% compared with a year ago.

U.S. bank regulators have tentatively agreed to ease an appraisal requirement that could help commercial real estate borrowers.

Homes for sale listings are scarcer than they've ever been entering the spring selling season.

Only 3.5% of homeowners in Houston have taken out a second mortgage.

Skyrocketing home prices and fierce competition for jobs in the Golden State are prodding poor families to pack up and head to Texas.

There's no affordable homes left in Boulder County, according to a new affordability study.

Soaring home values have property taxes on the rise. Servicers must be vigilant about borrower payment shock that can add complexity to escrow services and portfolio management. Here's a look at the states with the largest tax hikes.

A foreclosure by Licking County on the basket-shaped headquarters of the Longaberger Co. is imminent

Mortgage rates are being pushed higher by the same economic factors that led the Federal Open Market Committee to increase short-term rates.

The strongest pace of single-family homebuilding in nearly a decade drove residential housing starts to a four-month high in February.

One of the biggest investors in the Marriott Pere Marquette project has filed to start foreclosure proceedings in Peoria County, Ill., Court.

Scant listings of houses for sale in the core Orlando market pushed up home prices by 2.6% during the one-month period of February.