Current CEO Hugh Frater to retire and will be replaced on an interim basis by President David Benson. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae Board Chair Sheila Bair is stepping down and [...]

Additional American Rescue Plan funds have been granted by HUD to Fair Housing Initiatives Program agencies to fight pandemic-related housing discrimination practices. The post HUD Releases Nearly $3.3M to [...]

Four of the six components of Fannie Mae’s latest Home Purchase Sentiment Index fell due to growing concern about the direction of mortgage rates. The post Consumers Growing Pessimistic [...]

Shayna Arrington of The Money Source discusses how the servicing industry has handled the array of pandemic-related rules and regulations, and how collaboration has made the servicing space a [...]

Larry Cordell, SVP, Risk Assessment, Data Analysis, and Research Group, and Xudong An, AVP, Supervision, Regulation, and Credit, both of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, speak about foreclosure [...]

It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic affected nearly every facet of the economy and the people that live in it. But the pandemic didn’t affect everyone equally—Americans [...]

In 79% of counties nationwide, median-priced single-family homes were found to be less affordable in Q1 compared to historical averages, according to the Q1 2022 U.S. Home Affordability Report [...]

New announcement will require servicers with GSE-backed mortgages backed to delay the foreclosure process for up to 60 days. The post FHFA Suspends Foreclosures on Borrowers Who Applied for [...]

Sandra L. Thompson, Acting Director of the FHFA, speaks with DS News about her goals and priorities for the Agency and her vision for the future of the GSEs. [...]

Daren Blomquist of Auction.com explains how smaller-volume local buyers can better compete with institutional investors, whose capital and resources have historically given them the upper hand at in-person foreclosure [...]