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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.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup each have filed for new commercial-backed mortgage securitizations this week.

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.

Commercial real estate executives remain upbeat about their prospects for 2016, though they do see some potential hurdles on the horizon, according to CIT Group's 2016 Commercial Real Estate Outlook survey.

Property valuations for specially serviced U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities have dipped, according to Fitch Ratings.

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.

Greystone, a commercial real estate lending, investment and advisory company, is adding two executives to a mortgage bond lending team.

Being well educated has never been more important when it comes to owning a home.

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.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Wednesday it had raised a cap on the amount of multifamily loans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy from lenders, boosting it to $35 billion effective immediately.

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

At least one banker has gone public with expectations that the OCC will force his institution to hold more capital. More could soon follow.