U.S. house prices fell modestly in the fourth quarter of 2011 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI).

President Obama has unveiled more than half a dozen plans in recent months to revive the housing market.

February 2012 saw 698,000 housing starts, an almost-35 percent increase from February 2011, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Senate Democrats introduced a plan that would expand a housing program aimed at rehabilitating residential and business properties.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced a deadline of Dec. 31, 2012 for the implementation of a new securitization platform.

Newport Partners LLC, a Maryland-based consulting firm, announced the results of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded research project, “Safer, Stronger Homes: Protecting Your Risk During a Natural Disaster.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its 2012 construction general permit (CGP) that authorizes stormwater discharges from construction projects that disturb one or more acres of land in areas where EPA is the permitting authority

Analysts with the Bank of America Merrill Lynch believe the federal government’s real estate-owned (REO) rental program could encompass 20 percent of the national foreclosure total.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Carol Galante announced Monday that the agency will be restructuring premiums for all FHA-insured single-family mortgage loans.