Wells Fargo & Company announced this week that the bank’s head of Home Lending Default, Perry Hilzendeger, has been named the new head of Home Lending Servicing.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass an amendment eliminating the use of guarantee fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fund a controversial $47 billion transportation bill known as H.R. 22, or the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act.

Two days after fellow GSE Freddie Mac reported a net loss of $475 million for Q3, Fannie Mae reported a net income of $2 billion for the third quarter and a comprehensive income of $2.2 billion.

The House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday announced the passage of several bills aimed at directed at improving transparency and accountability of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, an agency created out of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

Freddie Mac reported a net loss of $475 million for Q3 2015 in its 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, the first time the GSE has reported a quarterly net loss in four years.

In a nationwide survey of real estate investors bidding on single-family residential properties offered for auction during the third quarter of 2015, online real estate marketplace Auction.com found that flipping is still the preferred strategy over hold-to-rent.

On Wednesday, Ocwen reported a net loss of $66.8 million for the third quarter in 2015 compared to a net loss of $75.3 million for the same quarter a year earlier.

All-cash transactions comprised nearly 31 percent of all single-family residential home sales nationwide in July 2015, marking a decline of more than three full percentage points year-over-year, according to CoreLogic cash sales data released on Friday.

Approximately three-quarters of mortgage industry professionals believe that today’s regulatory environment prevents them from lending to creditworthy borrowers.

As part of Washington’s continued focus on reducing regulatory burden for Main Street, the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee convened on Wednesday to discuss a series of recently proposed bills aimed at achieving this goal.