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The HUD Secretary told Congress on Tuesday that 85 percent of the Department's budget would go solely toward renewing rental assistance for nearly 5.5 million households.

Since the crisis, the housing industry has been consistently expanding, but when the pace of growth lost a large amount of momentum in the final quarter of last year, on top of economists' predictions of slow growth, many in the industry are questioning if the expansion is beginning to expire.

Computershare, a global market leader in transfer agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and stakeholder communications, recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Denver, Colorado-based Altavera Mortgage Services, LLC, a provider of independent, third-party mortgage origination services to residential mortgage lenders.

Castle & Cooke Mortgage, LLC, an independent mortgage lender with 44 locations across the United States, recently announced the expansion of its footprint in Utah with the opening of its ninth branch in North Salt Lake.

The single-family rental market has seen an unprecedented boom in popularity in the last couple of years. But a recent survey indicates that the rising cost of rents, as well as certain life events, are pushing some out of the rental market and into buying.

The percentage of home sales that were all-cash transactions was higher in November than in recent months due to TRID. Will the cash sales share return to normal or will the delays keep it elevated?

CEO Jay Bray said the company is entering 2016 "well-positioned from a strategic, operational and capital perspective.”

While a recent speech by FHFA Director Mel Watt has fueled speculation that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be recapitalized and the conservatorship will end, Treasury said that no policy change is imminent.

Instead of thinking of the foreclosure decline as a contributing factor to the drop in existing-home sales inventory, however, it is more accurate to say that existing-home inventory levels in the years immediately following the crisis were boosted by unusually high foreclosure levels.

After growing by more than $30 billion during the full year 2015, the portfolio begins the new year with expansion.