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The majority of mortgage industry professionals said they believed that the lowering of the down payment to 3 percent for first-time homebuyers by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was a step in the right direction for the housing market, according to the Collingwood ...

The number of residential foreclosure filings in the U.S. declined by 9 percent from October to November despite a yearly spike in the number of foreclosure starts, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for November 2014 released Thursday. Residential foreclosure filings, which ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 4.8 million job openings in the U.S. as of the last day of October 2014, up slightly from the 4.7 million reported at the end of September, but overall things changed little month-over-month, according ...

Following months of talk and speculation, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced on Monday they will begin allowing qualifying first-time borrowers to purchase homes with just a 3 percent down payment. By lowering the down payment down to 3 percent, leaders from the ...

U.S. payrolls for November surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts, increasing at the highest rate in more than two years, according to a government estimate. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by a seasonally adjusted 321,000 in November, following an upwardly revised ...

Foreclosure completions declined significantly both month-over-month and year-over-year in October, but are still way above pre-recession levels, according to CoreLogic's October 2014 National Foreclosure Report released on Thursday. Foreclosure completions, which are an indicator of the number of homes lost to foreclosure, totaled ...

The level of optimism for the housing market in the U.S. for the fourth quarter of 2014 is at its highest level as it has been at any point during the recovery, according to a recent survey conducted by Trulia. The ...

The figures for both sales and median price for existing homes in October nationwide were higher than the 10-year October average, or the average of that data from the previous 10 Octobers, according to the National Association of Realtors. The number of existing ...

Following a slower than expected summer, the U.S. housing market made up some ground in September as most major indicators inched closer to stability. Freddie Mac released its latest Multi-Indicator Market Index, revealing a 0.5 percent uptick in September to a reading ...

According to Freddie Mac's recently released monthly volume summary, the mortgage giant's total loan portfolio grew last month at an annualized rate of 2.5 percent, the highest growth rate since March 2013. As of the end of October, the portfolio's value ...