Fannie Mae will update its Desktop Underwriter service for FHA and VA to include changes made in updated appraisal forms.

FHA refinance applications increase; Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-NY, seeks HUD help following Bronx apartment explosion.

Prospective homebuyers in urban areas where the mortgage share of home sales is low may have to resort to riskier financing options.

Policies aimed at reducing barriers to homeownership inordinately benefit borrowers with wealthy parents, a recent Federal Reserve study found.

Mortgages with credit scores of 740 or higher accounted for 74% of the GSE purchase market in the third quarter.

The bipartisan housing package is intended to incentivize new construction and make reforms across lending programs.

Securitizations linked to data centers are mostly insulated from the direct risks of a potential AI bubble, according to industry participants.

The National Flood Insurance Program can’t issue new policies for the duration of the government shutdown, complicating and in some cases stalling lending for properties in flood-prone areas.

VA refi volume was down 31.5% from the second quarter, while FHA refi volume slipped 10.3%.

FHA is supporting some manual endorsement actions that lenders cannot process themselves.