Buyers are still motivated to purchase homes, even if the Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates in one of their last two meetings of the year.

New regulations and federal oversight have servicers constantly under the gun. They must learn the rules of the road for creating effective compliance and business development strategies in today’s evolving servicing market.

Although women holding key leadership positions in the housing industry is a rarity, there are a number of female trailblazers that have established a name for themselves in a male-dominated market.

With regulatory oversight continuing to weigh heavier on the mortgage industry, compliance may be the only solution to avoid fines and penalties.

The housing market has made its way back from crisis times, but investors still face unexpected challenges. The key to investors' ability to capitalize on opportunities that exist is knowledge.

After a reaching levels not seen since November 2005 in August, builder confidence for newly constructed single-family homes continued to climb in September with a one point increase to a level of 62.

Although most securitization asset classes began to pick up in the years following the financial crisis, the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities market remains stagnant.

Mortgage applications for the week ending September 11, 2015 fell 7 percent from one-week prior, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported in their Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey.

Despite recent market volatility, economic growth in the second half of the year is expected to improve, Fannie Mae says.

Consumer expectations for the housing market are showing a mixed outlook for the U.S. economy, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data August 2015 Survey of Consumer Expectations released Tuesday.