Appraisers are supposed to adjust the value of comparable properties to account for home price appreciation. FHFA found that most either don’t make these time adjustments or make them too small.

If the GSEs required stricter energy codes on new homes, savings on utility bills would cover borrowers’ costs within three years, a coalition of advocacy groups said in a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

First American Financial argues that title insurance is a negligible life-of-loan cost for homeowners and is not regressive.

The GSEs’ new multifamily loan acquisitions came to just $82.7 billion in the first 10 months of the year. That was down 23.8% from the first 10 months of 2022.

It’s unclear whether loans that have gone into forbearance post-pandemic will be eligible for new repurchase alternatives.

Lenders have launched a variety of products to reduce downpayment costs for GSE-eligible borrowers.

The baseline loan limit for one-unit properties will be $766,550 next year. Home prices are projected to continue to rise in 2024 but the rate of growth is open to debate.

With the prospect of a Fannie Mae title insurance pilot apparently off the table, critics turn their focus to attorney opinion letters.

Faster, better analysis of credit data means Fannie Mae can reduce some of the barriers to homeownership in “missing middle” housing.

Even though machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence have made the mortgage industry much more efficient, experts are less optimistic it can reduce racial inequity in the system.