New home construction ticked up in June after hitting a five-year low in May — the lowest level since the thick of the ...

Jerome Powell told his allies he would not leave the Federal Reserve unless he died. That’s exactly how far he said he is ...

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-backed companies that help with housing market affordability. They buy home loans from banks, bundle them into investments, and sell them to raise money.

President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell of "choking out the housing market" in his ...

A top housing finance regulator announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would allow lenders to use the traditional FICO ...

Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, dropped 4.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate ...

Bill Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority that runs mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ...

Private mortgage insurers must accept the FICO alternative as valid collateral before it can be widely adopted by the ...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row in another setback for the U.S. housing market, which is mired in a sales slump as affordability constraints shut out ...

Adding this competitor created by the big three credit bureaus likely means credit score prices will go up, not down.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, created in 2008 to oversee mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has historically ...

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