Tag Archives: Housing Reform

NAR will examine trends in the market, taking a closer look at the regional factors that are shaping the spring homebuying season.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing to discuss the next steps in housing reform, with a focus on reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

On Tuesday, the Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing to discuss housing reform. Here's what else is happening in The Week Ahead.

Former White House Counsel and Senior Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute Peter J. Wallison put in an appearance Thursday on CNBC’s The Santelli Exchange, where he criticized the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent approach to regulation ...

As President Trump will present his State of the Union address to the Senate this evening, what is the State of the Housing Industry? With home prices that show no signs of decreasing, changes in leadership at the Consumer Finance ...

It’s been a decade since the housing bubble collapsed, sending shockwaves through the mortgage industry and creating economic impacts that are still being felt throughout the nation to varying degrees. In its December 2017 issue, DS News spoke to several ...

According to a new paper published by the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution, rural communities could be dealt a serious blow if housing finance and GSE reform fails to take into account the effect such reform ...

The Housing and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday titled “Sustainable Housing Finance, Part III,” to further assess views and perspectives on the need to enact comprehensive housing finance reform.

Some critics believe the mortgage interest deduction only benefits the wealthy, but according to Iona Harrison, Chair of the National Association of Realtors’ Federal Taxation Committee, the numbers tell a different story. Take a look at what Harrison had to say to the Senate Finance Committee during a hearing entitled ““Individual Housing Reform.”

With fluctuating mortgage rates under watch, many are speculating about what the future of mortgage rates will look like in the years to come, especially with the possibility of GSE reform.