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The CFPB's push to cut off lenders’ ability to include clauses prohibiting borrowers and bank account holders from filing or joining class action lawsuits in their contracts comes with a price.

Wall Street has figured in another billion-plus dollar non-performing loan (NPL) sale for one of the GSEs.

While the conservatorships continue, so do the Enterprise’s initiatives to ease the risk for taxpayers by further involving investors in the private capital market.

Although the market may be facing challenges such constrained inventory and home price appreciation outpacing wage growth, existing-home sales have a bright future ahead, according to industry economists. Where will existing-home sales land this week?

There is one growing sector of the housing market that often flies under radar of industry attention: the rural housing market. But it's definitely making some noise now.

M&T Bank Corp., agreed to pay the U.S. to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting single-family mortgage loans insured by the FHA that did not meet the mortgage insurer's requirements.

Lenders and servicers are not the only ones finding themselves wading through the murky waters of regulatory compliance. Recent rule changes germinating in the mortgage industry have shaken up business as usual at title and escrow companies. Editor's note: This select print feature appears in the May 2016 edition of MReport magazine.

As mortgage interest rates continue to remain at historical lows and home prices stay on favorable ground, housing affordability followed these trends with an increase in the first quarter of 2016.

In order to achieve lower default rates on single-family rental investor loans, many single-family rental loan originators have enhanced their underwriting criteria. What changes did they make?

Most everyone agrees that the conservatorships need to end, but cannot agree on how. What did a conservative coalition propose as the solution?