If you’re seriously thinking about buying a home in the months ahead, you almost certainly know how important your FICO credit score will be...

Freddie Mac is launching a new program to help keep rents down. The initiative will offer owners who cap rent increases for the duration...

The buyer of a 121-unit apartment complex in the Tampa area got a $10 million loan to finance the acquisition. The garden-style apartment complex,...

If you’ve got it, don’t piggybank it — borrow against it. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment among tens of thousands of American...

The White House on Thursday unveiled a plan to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government control and turn them into private companies....

Could lenders’ pain be your gain if you’re shopping for a home mortgage? Maybe. Though it hasn’t been in the headlines, mortgage companies are...

The two biggest sources of home-mortgage money in the country — investors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are quietly working on ways to...

For homeowners and buyers, it’s been an unexpected windfall: relief from having to pay for a traditional mortgage appraisal that usually costs between $400...

It’s a question other lenders are asking more and more as they find themselves being beat by either Fannie or Freddie. The reason the...

Multifamily building leads US housing starts higher in January From TRD NYC: A 19.7 percent increase in residential rental and condominium starts lead to...