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Despite yesterday's report that home builders' confidence was down, they have certainly been busy with new construction in November 2015.

As interest rates continue to lower and home values rise, mortgage fraud application risk has fallen 8.9 percent from the second quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2015, according to CoreLogic's October 2015 Mortgage Fraud Report. The Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index showed that approximately 12,814 of mortgage applications, or 0.67 percent, contained fraud in the second quarter of 2015.

Ambiguity and/or delays in the loan modification process were a frequent subject of the monthly complaints report and mortgage credit access will be expanded to rural areas.

The Federal Housing Fiance Agency issued an update to their Common Securitization Platform on Tuesday outlining the progress that as been made in developing a new infrastructure for the securitization of single-family mortgages by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Black Knight Financial Services' Data and Analytics division released its June 2015 Home Price Index report, finding that U.S. home prices were up 0.9 percent for the month, and have gained 5.1 percent year-over-year.

According to NASDAQ Dow Jones Business News, a positive housing data report raised U.S. Treasury yields on Tuesday.

The aging baby boomer population is something that is expected to affect both single family and multifamily housing markets, David Brickman, EVP of multifamily business at Freddie Mac explains in an executive perspective post.

Caliber Home Loans, Inc., recently announced that Mike Homberg and Scott Berngartt have joined the company as branch manager and sales manager, respectively.

Banks reported stronger demand for mortgage loans and eased lending standards in a number of categories, suggesting positive growth in the second half of the year, according to the Federal Reserve July 2015 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices.

Fitch Ratings confirmed that borrower-focused company, RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation's residential mortgage servicer ratings have been adjusted. Fitch determined that RoundPoint's U.S. residential primary servicer rating for subprime product is 'RPS3+' and the U.S. residential special servicer rating is 'RSS3+'. In addition, the rating outlooks have been revised to 'negative' from 'stable.'