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With the fall season well underway, the housing market is showing signs of slowing down with declines in demand and inventory.

Homeownership may have declined in 2014, but there are other trends and factors such as marriage and children, education, demographics, and lifestyle that influence how consumers operate in the market.

Banks need to take steps now to avoid emerging credit risk in today’s financial system in order to prevent another financial meltdown, according to Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry in a public address on Monday.

Supply and demand challenges are expected to slow down existing-home sales to early summer levels at 5.44 million units, according to Auction.com’s Real Estate Nowcast.

The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data collection rules have recently been finalized, but U.S. banks and credit unions are troubled with how to accurately capture the new HMDA-required data fields.

Following the Federal Open Market Committee's decision to leave interest rates untouched, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported Thursday that interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages fell in September.

In a nationwide survey of real estate investors bidding on single-family residential properties offered for auction during the third quarter of 2015, online real estate marketplace Auction.com found that flipping is still the preferred strategy over hold-to-rent.

Michael Stegman, President Obama’s top adviser on housing policy, recently addressed some of the mortgage industry's hot-button topics such as housing market recovery, homeownership support for struggling buyers, GSE reform, and risk sharing.

As the housing market continues to improve, more buyers enter the market, and inventory levels decline, favor now rests in sellers' hands.

U.S. banks' can expect their long-term business strategies to continue to be affected by the "lower-for-longer" interest rate environment that Fed officials have placed the industry in.