Mortgage interest rates were down for the second consecutive week following eight weeks of increases, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raised their standard mortgage modification rate for the second time in a month up to its highest level since mid-2015.

HUD Secretary-Designate Dr. Ben Carson calmly answered questions for nearly three hours before the Senate Banking Committee in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, saying that he wanted to run HUD in order to "heal America's divisiveness."

Six months after initially announcing its intention to go public, single-family rental platform Invitation Homes has made its plans known for the IPO.

After falling year-over-year for five consecutive Decembers, the number of bankruptcy filings bumped up from the previous year, according to the latest AACER bankruptcy data reported by Epiq Systems.

Affordability may be strong for now in the housing market, but how much longer will that last? Maybe not too much longer, according to one analysis.

A group of Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives have written a letter to President-elect Donald Trump asking him not to remove CFPB Director Richard Cordray before his term is up in mid-2018.

By any measure, consumers have great expectations for the U.S. economy in the coming year. What is driving the optimism?

Privatizing the GSEs could potentially have an adverse effect on the mortgage market in the United States, according to Kroll Bond Ratings Agency.

The National Association of Mortgage Field Services has created a Compliance Working Group with the goal of standardizing compliance for the mortgage field services industry,

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently reported on what it has done to assist the mortgage industry with the smooth implementation of three of its major initiatives: TRID, HMDA, and the August 2016 updates to its new mortgage servicing rules.