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National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun talks with DS News about his forecast for the housing market for the remainder of 2016 as well as such topics as inventory, affordability, wage growth, and delinquency rates.

The Q1 financial results for Fannie Mae contained much better news than the report of its fellow GSE, Freddie Mac, earlier this week.

It may have been a tough quarter in Q1 for Freddie Mac financially, but at least their is one year-end goal that the Enterprise was already close to attaining at the end of March.

As the GSE conservatorship surges forward with no hope for reform in the near term, many in the industry cannot help but wonder what will happen next.

What were some of the trends at both the national and state levels happening with bankruptcy filings in April?

Doug Oliver, partner with Anselmo Lindberg Oliver, recently spoke with DS News about two issues that he sees as symptoms of the “general negative view” that the political class and the general public have toward the mortgage servicing industry.

Nationstar was the only one of the three largest non-bank servicers rated by Moody's to turn a profit in 2015, but the Dallas-based servicer couldn't keep it up in the first quarter of 2016. What caused the net loss for Nationstar, and which segments of the company performed well in Q1?

Federal financial regulators on Tuesday proposed a rule that require the largest banks to be ready in case of another financial crisis. What are the agencies proposing that banks do to be ready?

While the single-family rental market is one area that will continue to provide opportunity in the REO marketplace, the question remains: What’s next for the banks, servicers, and investors who touch the REO sector nearly a decade past its high? This select print feature originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of DS News.

To date, Fannie Mae's CAS program has resulted in the transfer of credit risk on single-family loans totaling more than a half trillion dollars. What enhancements did Fannie Mae make to the program?