Bolstered by a strong private sector market demand, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to attract and expand private sector investment in the last quarter of 2017.
Read More »Mortgage Bankers and Government Leaders Converge in D.C.
Housing and housing finance reforms, especially for the underserved are on top of the agenda at the ninth annual Five Star Government Forum on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. ...
Read More »Smaller Banks Better at Reinvesting in Communities, Says Survey
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) is headed for changes by The Treasury and will relook at reinvestments of banks towards supporting community needs through initiatives such as fair ...
Read More »HUD Secretary Ben Carson to Speak at Government Forum
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Benjamin Carson, will address attendees at the 2018 Five Star Government Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 3. Now ...
Read More »$42 Billion: HUD’s Budget for 2018
On Thursday, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson testified before the Senate Banking Committee. "At HUD, we believe the requested level of funding–$42 ...
Read More »After Fed Hike, Mortgage Rates Could Rise Again
On Wednesday, after Jerome Powell's first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as Fed Chair, the Federal Reserve announced that it had increased the Fed funds rate by ...
Read More »Keeping PACE with Clean Energy Finance Laws
By T. Robert Finlay, Founding Partner, Wright, Finlay & Zak and Sonia Edwards, Senior Associate, Wright, Finlay & Zak, California With global warming and other environmental issues at the ...
Read More »How will Fed Rate Hikes Affect Housing?
The meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)—the policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve begins today. This is also the first time that the meeting is being ...
Read More »Fannie Mae: Housing Market Headwinds are Temporary
The housing market might have had a rough start to the year, but according to Fannie Mae’s Economic and Housing Outlook released on Monday, this quarter seems to ...
Read More »Promoting and Protecting Homeownership
It’s been a decade since the housing crisis of 2008. As the present administration looks at rolling back some of the more stringent regulations that were introduced during ...
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