With the storm having made landfall Thursday with winds estimated at 150 mph, the industry is mobilizing to assist impacted homeowners, but challenges such as insurance gaps will complicate [...]

In a typical year, buyer-seller activity would be dwindling down heading into Labor Day, economic experts report. This is not a "typical year." The post Competition Heats Up Amid [...]

A number of metros in seven states are under enhanced siege by a percolating number of FHA delinquencies, jeopardizing homeowners and neighborhoods, according the AEI.org. A cocktail of factors [...]

GSE Fannie Mae recently reminded those impacted by Hurricane Laura and the California wildfires that mortgage assistance and disaster relief options are available. Under Fannie Mae's guidelines for single-family [...]

UPDATE: The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and HUD announced, shortly following FHFA's similar announcement, the third extension of its foreclosure and eviction moratorium through December 31, for homeowners with [...]

Now at all-time low, an increase in foreclosure rates may be "inevitable" once state-level moratoria have expired. Here’s the latest. The post Foreclosure Report: Which States Are Seeing Increases? [...]

The common refrain is that competition unleashes the best in everything. Along those lines, while low rates likely will abet a number of those in the most competitive housing [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced today that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will extend buying qualified loans in forbearance as well as several loan origination flexibilities. To [...]

Fitch Ratings is raising concern that the government-sponsored enterprises’ (GSEs) response to the COVID-19 pandemic is having a problematic impact on their mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issuances. Fitch noted that [...]

As of August 10, the total number of loans now in forbearance dipped one basis point from 7.21% of servicers' portfolio volume the week before to 7.20%, according to [...]