Dave Stevens, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said he doesn’t know which way the FHFA will decide on the topic...

There are three major cooperatives that serve as middlemen between lenders and various counterparties: Lenders One, Capital Markets Cooperative and The Mortgage Collaborative.

In short order, Wingspan faces a dilemma that many of its peers are facing: rapidly improving real estate values are snuffing out delinquencies and draining the supply of problem loans.

The highest reading of the year came in January, $245.9 billion, a time when interest rates were still declining.

According to a new consumer survey from Fannie Mae, 63 percent of consumers think that now is a good time to buy a home, tying a survey low...

The rise in retail market share likely reflects the fact that smaller lenders, which are more likely to do retail lending exclusively, account for a growing share of GSE business.

Savitt noted that some lenders don’t want to staff up too much “only to have to lay off workers later on.”

In addition, 25 percent of all LGBT survey respondents said they plan to purchase real estate in the next three years.

RealtyTrac noted that the peak for cash deals came in February 2011 at 42.2 percent of all transactions.

About 90 percent of the housing markets in the U.S today are considered affordable, according to RealtyTrac. Speaking at a recent real estate conference in Miami, RealtyTrac Vice President Daren Blomquist said places like San Diego and Seattle are on the threshold of exceeding their historic affordability. …