Last week the FDIC and other Federal agencies proposed risk retention rulemaking and called for public commentary. Today RISMedia revealed some more details on the

Houston-based Hines announced today that it has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the 2011 Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award in recognition of continued leadership in protecting the environment through energy efficiency. Hines will be

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), sales of homes valued at one million or more dollars are up from the same time last

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury have released the March edition of the Obama Administration’s Housing

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

The FBI announced today that a Texas woman, formerly of York County, Pa., has been charged with defrauding 14 mortgage lenders, 35 homeowners and five individual investors out of approximately $2,700,000 between 2006 and

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