Would you welcome the option to buy a house but not have to pay hundreds of dollars for an appraisal? Are you kidding? Sign...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have built a trillion-dollar business insuring mortgages. But increasingly they are doing something entirely different: selling off mortgage-backed securities...

If you’ve been waiting for the long-anticipated news that the two dominant players in the home mortgage arena — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Welcome to the brave new world of online borrowing. For the first time ever, a U.S. family closed a mortgage remotely using only electronic...

If the market collapses, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be in a pretty big bind: They’ll need a nearly $100 billion bailout. According...

Chinese real estate investment industry is set to begin rapidly consolidating Dalian Wanda Group’s $9.3 billion sale of nearly 90 tourist and hotel assets...

Federal Reserve governor Jerome Powell joined the growing chorus of those who want to see private capital invested in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,...

Two senators are seriously looking at a plan that would split Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into single-family and multifamily parts. Tennessee Republican Bob...

Examining the impact of Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition The mother of all buyouts went down, and it makes a ton of sense. Amazon’s success,...

Do we always need an appraiser to tell us what a house is worth? The two biggest sources of mortgage financing in the country...

An investor group including hedge fund Paulson & Co. and the Blackstone Group wants to turn Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back into private...

Overhauling the government’s role in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is back on the table. With backing from President Trump — who’s...

U.S. mortgage rates fell below 4 percent last week, which may encourage a rush of home buyers. Last week, the average rate on a...

Homebuyers sitting on the sidelines may want to think about getting in the game, with U.S. mortgage rates falling for the fourth week in...

U.S. mortgage rates rose to the highest level in 2017 ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting that will decide the direction of short-term interest...

Steven Mnuchin may soon be forced to clarify his plans for housing finance reform, following this week’s federal appeal court decision that investors in...

Kushner Companies has $568.8 million in loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac outstanding, creating the potential for conflicts of interest as White...

So you still think it’s impossible to get a mortgage because lenders’ standards continue to be super-strict and your profile doesn’t quite fit the...

Think of them as back-room surcharges that increase what you pay when you get a conventional home mortgage. They can also kill your loan...

A former head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency wants to turn the government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into lender-owned insurance companies....