Daily Dose

As the winter season presses on, the housing market is experiencing a seasonal slowdown in activity among home sales, prices, and inventory.

It’s a shortened market week for the Christmas holiday, but there are still a number of key metrics to look for this week.

Should housing policy continue to focus on traditional homeownership or concentrate its efforts on a broader definition of what constitutes “shelter?”

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently made headlines when congress members said that the GSEs had a monopoly on their credit scoring system due to their singular use of the FICO score.

The picture could change completely in 2016 if interest rates begin edging up following the Fed's decision to raise rates on Wednesday.

Bank of America will continuing outsourcing origination services through PHH Corp., to its Merrill Lynch clients.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s 7-year-old conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will continue for at least another year despite the fact that it was meant to be temporary.

The housing market is still trekking down the recovery path, and although the market has not returned to its peak, it has made significant progress since crisis times.

The Fannie Mae survey found that the easing of credit standards may help solve some of the affordable housing problems that the housing market has been experiencing.

Technology is becoming one of the single most important aspects and drivers of growth in the housing industry. Originators, servicers, investors, and others in real estate need to ensure that they are implementing different technologies within their businesses.