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The Federal Housing Administration's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund gained $19 billion in economic value during Fiscal Year 2015, pushing its capital ratio past the 2 percent threshold required by Congress, according to HUD’s annual report to Congress released Monday morning.

Satisfaction among mortgage customers has improved overall this year as lenders have shifted their focus to developing functional digital channels and improving operational efficiency.

In an address about the economic outlook in the United States and monetary policy at the Economic Club of New York this week, New York Fed President and CEO Bill Dudley praised the progress housing has made during the economic recovery but refused to offer his views on whether the Fed would raise the short-term interest rate in December.

As a sign that the housing market is returning to normal, sellers are more likely to be selling their homes due to life-cycle motivators like upgrading or downsizing rather than securing a home before interest rates are adjusted by the Federal Reserve.

A statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday showed that loanDepot was planning to offer 26.4 million shares of its common stock on Friday, valued at $16 to $18 per share. The move was expected to raise $475 million for the company, which was to be valued at $2.6 billion.

Nationstar Mortgage has agreed to pay $77 million to settle class-action suits filed by homeowners over the alleged inflating of homeowner insurance rates.

A pair of former advisors to the Clinton and Obama administrations recently laid out plans to bring the contentious “recap and release” proposal to recapitalize the GSEs and release them from government conservatorship to reality.

Increases in existing-home sales and short supplies of inventory pushed home prices up in most metro areas across the nation in the third quarter, the National Association of Realtors found in it latest quarterly report.

The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) found that more than 18 million homeowner households and more than 20 million renter households experienced housing affordability problems last year, with renters suffering more consistently high “cost burden” issues than owners.

Mortgage interest rates rose for the second consecutive week following a strong October jobs report and a slight jump in wage growth, which pushed Treasury yields up and increased chances for a December rate hike from the Federal Reserve.