Illinois, Maryland, Missouri and Nevada – are considering legislation that would prohibit or restrict the use of distressed sales as comparable sales as a part of a residential real estate

Zillow announced yesterday the launch of the Zillow BlackBerry App for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry

The National Association of Realtors yesterday urged Congress to move cautiously when reforming government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in some ARM contracts, was 4.79 percent based on loans closed

Six federal agencies are seeking comment on a proposed rule that would require sponsors of asset-backed securities (ABS) to retain at least 5 percent of the credit risk of the assets underlying the securities and would not permit sponsors

According to February month-end data from Lender Processing Services (LPS), the amount of foreclosure starts last month was at its lowest level since November of

The market share of vacation and investment-home sales held steady in 2010, although the sales volume declined with the overall market, according to the National Association of

Yesterday the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, joined with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Federal Reserve, and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced

Mortgage applications decreased 7.5 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 25,

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today approved a proposal of new risk retention rules in an attempt to stabilize the mortgage

Data through January 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show further deceleration in the annual growth rates in 13 of the 20 MSAs and the

As reported by Diana Olick of CNBC Real Estate, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and other federal agencies vote this morning on a proposed set of mortgage risk retention rules that could drastically change the already tumultuous lending

Pending home sales increased in February but with notable regional variations, according to the National Association of

Freddie Mac completed 23,017 loan modifications during the first two months of 2011 and single-family delinquencies on mortgages held or backed by the GSE dropped in

At a crucial juncture for the nation’s emerging housing recovery, restoring the flow of acquisition, development and construction (AD&C) lending to sustain new housing activity took center stage as 500 builders from across the country converged on Capitol Hill

As annual Earth Hour approaches, real estate investment and property management firms across the country have announced their