After FHFA required the GSEs to provide translated mortgage documents, limited English proficient borrowers’ experiences improved, new research shows.

FHFA wants the authority to suspend counterparties that have been sanctioned by other federal or state regulators. The agency argues that the outcomes of certain civil actions are analogous to criminal convictions.

A broad coalition of industry groups say FHFA’s current timeline is too short for the scale and complexity of the transition.

It got 14 votes from House Democrats, but the Republican-sponsored Middle-Class Borrower Protection Act is unlikely to make it to the Senate.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s proposal to codify its fair lending oversight of the GSEs is rife with redundancies, some say.

More than 13,000 residents have established a credit score for the first time due to the pilot program.

The proposed rule would require mortgage originators to adopt policies and procedures to ensure automated valuation models protect against manipulation of data and ensure confidence in the appraisal estimates.

Some experts expect MSR trading to top $1 trillion in each of the next three years, surpassing the approximately $900 billion traded in 2022.

The Appraisal Subcommittee’s second open meeting focused on how appraisal methods might introduce biases to the valuation process.

At a congressional hearing this week, the FHFA director faced four hours of questioning, including queries on the recently rescinded proposed fee based on a borrower’s DTI ratio.