Mortgage rates declined for the third straight week, according to Housing Predictor, falling to 4.87% for a 30-year fixed-rate loan.

Of the 2.7 million homeowners who tried to get mortgage help from the Obama administration’s assistance program, only a quarter actually got their monthly payments lowered, The Wall Street Journal reported. Roughly 680,000 homeowners got payment modifi

Mortgage rates jumped to their highest level in ten months after crossing the 5% barrier for the first time in half a year.

The Obama administration’s long-awaited proposal for reforming the U.S. mortgage market calls for shuttering both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over a period of five years or more. The two agencies, along with the Federal Housing Administration, currently

The mortgage-interest deduction, a pillar of the nation’s long-held support for housing and the American Dream, is under assault, say NAHB observers

The Obama administration will most likely miss a deadline for its anticipated report regarding the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In this exclusive one-hour webinar, Ivy Zelman, the leading home building and building products research analyst on Wall Street, discusses recent dynamics in the home building, mortgage, home improvement, and non-residential construction sectors and offe

Fannie Mae has started testing a foreclosure-prevention program in Florida that is designed to bring banks and troubled borrowers together earlier. The idea behind the program is to get banks and borrowers to negotiate mortgage modifications and other al

After rising to their highest levels since May, mortgage rates dropped slightly to open the new year, according to Freddie Mac.