The controversial Bureau, now almost five years old, has handed out more than $5 billion in penalties.
Read More »Housing Advocates’ Applause of Trust Fund Contribution Comes With Caution
The recently announced contribution by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the National Housing Trust Fund drew guarded praise from housing advocates and civil rights groups.
Read More »The Impact of HAMP on GSE-Backed Loans
With HAMP set to expire at the end of this year, how much of an effect has the program had on GSE-backed loans?
Read More »Counsel’s Corner: Settling an Age-Old Debate Over the Definition of ‘Beneficiary’
In this installment of Counsel's Corner, Dan Ross of Weinstein & Riley discusses with DS News two recent cases and their implications for debt note owners, debt note holders, and foreclosure mediation.
Read More »It’s Still All About the Inventory
Many housing experts and industry analysts have been talking about it for months, and it remains a problem.
Read More »Non-Profit Gets in on Freddie Mac’s Delinquent Loan Sale
Democratic lawmakers and housing advocates have been calling for the GSEs to sell non-performing loans (NPLs) to non-profits and Community Development Financial Institutions, and on Wednesday, they partially got their wish.
Read More »New Investors, Here is What You Need to Know About the SFR Market
DS News recently talked with Fiona Simmonds of B2R Finance and Mike Ryan with RE/MAX about opportunities for new investors in the single-family rental space, what they need to know, and the role technology plays in the transition.
Read More »Delinquencies Rebound from January’s Spike
The total non-current inventory dropped to its lowest level in more than eight years, according to Black Knight Financial Services.
Read More »Is Regulation Hurting the Affordability of Housing?
Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Missouri) has been an outspoken critic of government regulation when it comes to the housing and the financial industry.
Read More »Lawmakers to HUD and FHFA: Don’t Change Delinquent Loan Sales Programs
Hensarling and Shelby said campaigns that criticize the open and competitive NPL sales process are “based on a false notion that doing so is somehow contrary to the goal of ‘neighborhood stabilization.’”
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