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Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio took a huge downward turn in November, while the mortgage giant's Book of Business inched upward, according to Fannie Mae's November 2014 Monthly Summary. The balance of the gross mortgage portfolio dropped from $4.36 billion in ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has approved the merger application for the Federal Home Loan Banks of Des Moines and Seattle that was submitted on October 31, 2014, according to a press release. The historic voluntary merger between two FHL Banks is subject to satisfaction of specific ...

Both foreclosure completions and foreclosure starts on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans continued their steady decline in the third quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Q3 Foreclosure Prevention Report released earlier this week. The GSEs completed 39,000 foreclosures in Q3, down 9 percent ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have completed approximately 3.3 million foreclosure prevention actions since the start of the conservatorship in September 2008, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Q3 Foreclosure Prevention Report released Monday. About 2.8 million of those 3.3 million foreclosure prevention actions ...

The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report for the Third Quarter of 2014, released Friday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, showed improvement in the performance of first-lien mortgages serviced by seven national banks and one federal savings association. The ...

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said the Department will continue to focus on its top priorities in 2015 with the 45 billion dollar budget allotted as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015, ...

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday night that retroactively extends 55 tax provisions, among which are allowing deductions for mortgage insurance premium interest and tax relief on forgiven mortgage debt. The tax provisions covered by the bill, known as the ...

JPMorgan Chase reported that it has provided more than half of the consumer relief required in just one year as part of a settlement with the government, according to a report released Tuesday. The internal review group for the New York-based megabank ...

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have both unanimously voted to pass a bill that give military servicemembers who have recently returned from duty added protection from foreclosure, according to an announcement from U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, who introduced ...

Washington, D.C.-based NeighborWorks America, one of the nation's largest community development corporations, announced that more than 1.8 million homeowners have received foreclosure prevention counseling through the association's National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program as of July 31, 2014. Distressed homeowners have utilized ...