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Bank of America’s first-ever look at homebuying trends has found that more buyers want a home more than they want an investment in property.

Millennials have been cited by many housing analysts as the group that is the key to homeownership growth. What factors are keeping this group from becoming homeowners?

All told, more than half of the survey respondents said new TRID regulations have added five or more days to mortgage closing.

The Fed noted in the minutes that “raising the target range as soon as April would signal a sense of urgency (FOMC participants) did not think appropriate.”

Fragmentation and overlap have resulted in inefficiencies and in inconsistent regulatory oversight, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Government agencies have invested significantly in housing counseling since the crisis. Now technology is going to play a larger role in counseling moving forward.

In this installment of Ask the Economist, Genworth Mortgage Insurance Chief Economist Tian Liu offers his forecast for the housing market in the rest of 2016—and why he thinks inventory will pick up.

Home builders have hit a roadblock. The ramped up regulatory environment has made it difficult for home builders to build affordable homes.

JPMorgan Chase Bank has become the first institution to file a residential mortgage-backed securitizations deal that qualifies under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s six-year-old Safe Harbor rule.

Many, including FHFA Director Mel Watt, have expressed concern over Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's lack of a capital buffer. But at this point, how likely is it that they will be recapitalized and released from the conservatorships?