The Congressional Budget Office analyzed what the effects on the industry would be if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were to increase their capital levels.
Read More »A First for Fannie Mae’s Credit Insurance Risk Transfers
For the past three years, Fannie Mae has transferred a substantial portion of credit risk to mortgage insurance affiliates. But until now, all of those transactions have been of the back-end variety.
Read More »The Youth Movement Among First-Time Homebuyers
The average age range of the first-time home buyer has been skewing younger since the start of the new millennium.
Read More »The Trouble With Rural Housing Is . . .
Population growth in rural areas over the next 15 years will be mostly elderly citizens. But the houses are aging, too, and the rural housing stock is currently not friendly to populations that want to age in place. What steps can be taken to remedy the issue?
Read More »Freddie Mac: Expect Less Refi Activity in 2017
Mortgage markets are doing well, but don’t take anything for granted, according to Freddie Mac's latest outlook.
Read More »It’s Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder
Home values are growing at their fastest pace in two years, according to one analysis.
Read More »Appraisal Turn Times Rise, but TRID is Innocent
Appraisals have become lengthier and costlier since TRID went into effect in October 2015. But a survey of lenders showed that TRID is not to blame.
Read More »Are First-Time Homebuyers Back?
Less competition heading into the fall has meant more opportunities in the existing-homes market for first-time buyers. What effect is this having on existing-home sales?
Read More »Legal League 100 Names Education Subcommittee Chairman
The Legal League 100 Advisory Council has appointed Jim DeLoach, Senior Counsel for McCalla Raymer Pierce LLC, to Chairman of the Education Services Subcommittee.
Read More »Lower Yields are Not Stopping SFR Investors
Gross rental yields on single-family rental properties are at a post-recession low, but that is not preventing institutional investors from getting in the game.
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