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Freddie Mac is ramping up its use of credit risk transfers, completing $215 billion in single-family transfers last year, up to $600 billion since 2013.

Jared Kushner relinquished control of his family's multibillion-dollar real estate business in January to eliminate conflicts of interest when he became a top White House adviser to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.

Rising mortgage balances and home prices in Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data will be heartening for consumers that want to sell, but reflect challenges for those who want to buy.

The new entity, called Guaranteed Rate Affinity, will primarily originate and market its services to Realogy's real estate brokerage and relocation subsidiaries.

Builders started work on more homes than forecast in January after an upward revision to starts in the prior month, a sign construction was on a steady path entering 2017.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo said Wednesday that although he plans to begin working on housing finance reform and changes to the Dodd-Frank Act, the poor relationship between Democrats and Republicans will slow any progress.

The government-sponsored enterprises should target their affordable housing efforts to strengthening the single-family market, rather than investing in private equity giants.

Homeowners are reaping the rewards of higher home prices, as the number of seriously underwater properties dropped by 1 million from one year ago, Attom Data Solutions said.

The denial rate traditionally used by the mortgage industry is hiding the fact that fewer borrowers with lower credit are applying for loans, according to the Urban Institute.

Nonbank mortgage company Cornerstone Home Lending has launched a new mortgage company as a joint venture with homebuilder Oakwood Homes.

There were 89 markets that had the all-time high in median sales price last year with these 10 posting the biggest percentage gain over 2015.

Home price gains accelerated in the fourth quarter, with increases reported in 89% of metropolitan areas, as competition heated up for a record-low supply of listings, the National Association of Realtors said.

Analysts at Deutsche Bank, one of the biggest underwriters of bonds tied to U.S. commercial real estate, say now it's time to short indexes of the securities.

A greater share of millennial women leveraged Federal Housing Administration loans than millennial men, Ellie Mae found in its latest Millennial Tracker report.

Corporate borrowers aren't ready just yet to pull the trigger on multimillion-dollar loans to buy fleets of trucks or scads of new inventory despite excitement about a more business-friendly Washington, lenders cautioned.

Joseph Ficalora, New York Community's CEO, told analysts that his company could still have a chance to buy Astoria "down the road."

Home prices ended 2016 with yet another year-over-year uptick, according to CoreLogic.

The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index rose two percentage points to 82.7 in January, reflecting the more positive consumer outlook following November's presidential election.

A homeowner's equity position is one of the many factors that drive property transitions between owner-occupied and rental status, according to a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Research Institute for Housing America.

Renovate America, one of the largest providers of Property Assessed Clean Energy loans, is expanding into unsecured lending.