The Fannie Mae survey found that the easing of credit standards may help solve some of the affordable housing problems that the housing market has been experiencing.

Technology is becoming one of the single most important aspects and drivers of growth in the housing industry. Originators, servicers, investors, and others in real estate need to ensure that they are implementing different technologies within their businesses.

So now that the rates are higher, mortgage industry professionals are now wondering how this change will be impact their business moving forward into the new year. Several executives sat down with MReport to give their thoughts on if the housing market will thrive, stall, or completely shatter in the near future.

Now that the Federal Reserve has raised the federal funds target rate, which will impact interest rates, prospective homebuyers are probably weighing their mortgage financing options.

Many factors have been contributed to the lessening number of young homeowners over time—excluding a brief spike during the housing boom—but this may be about to change in the near future.

Careless underwriting standards is causing an influx of credit risk in bank lending portfolios, which could be a huge mistake for these lenders over the long-term.

Despite yesterday's report that home builders' confidence was down, they have certainly been busy with new construction in November 2015.

The Federal Reserve made the long-awaited, much-anticipated announcement on Wednesday afternoon that federal funds target rate will increase by a quarter of a percentage point from its near-zero level where it has been since 2006.

In order to provide its users with more information about valuation services, Summit Valuations, LLC, recently announced that the company has launched a new website for the new year.

Soft economic growth in Q4 to this point has done nothing to change Fannie Mae’s forecast for economic growth forecast for 2016, as current economic conditions suggest that that a long-anticipated increase in the federal funds target rate will be announced Wednesday afternoon