The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row, another setback for the U.S. housing market, which is mired in a sales slump as affordability constraints shut out ...

The notion of creating a vehicle for individual investors of modest means to access a mix of securities on an incremental ...

New home construction ticked up in June after hitting a five-year low in May — the lowest level since the thick of the ...

The buyers, identified by Florida's Business Observer, secured Freddie Mac financing for the 50-year-old asset, which had strong occupancy.

Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager who runs Pershing Square Capital Management, is pushing hard for something that might sound wonky but could hit your wallet: privatizing Fannie Mae and ...

President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell of "choking out the housing market" in his ...

A top housing finance regulator announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would allow lenders to use the traditional FICO ...

Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, dropped 4.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate ...

Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority that runs mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ...

Private mortgage insurers must accept the FICO alternative as valid collateral before it can be widely adopted by the ...