Conventional loans are mortgages that aren't backed by a government agency. If a conventional mortgage meets Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) loan limits and adheres to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ...

Mortgage bankers feared a proposal related to lenders' access to a major secondary market and related reporting was too harsh ...

The speaker of the Rhode Island House described how his state has tackled affordable housing and how it could be a model for ...

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U.S. consumer confidence dropped by the most in three years in September amid mounting fears over the labor market, though ...

The regulator said it has changed its proposal to amend the Suspended Counterparty Program by offering a less severe version.

The Suspended Counterparty Program regulation requires an entity to report if an individual or institution that it does ...

A group of U.S. senators are urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency to implement stricter energy efficiency standards on ...

Eight senators are urging the FHFA to adopt newer energy-efficiency standards unveiled earlier this year by HUD and USDA.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has agreed to more regular checks on the government-sponsored enterprises' flood ...

The Federal Home Loans Bank System is under pressure to fund more affordable housing and has several proposals that may work ...

"The Fed’s decision was pretty aligned with market pricing," Zhao notes, so a major drop in mortgage rates is highly unlikely ...