• Ex-GSE risk chief makes case for Fannie-Freddie merger,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    Ex-GSE risk chief makes case for Fannie-Freddie merger

    Clifford Rossi speaks from the vantage point of someone who has been inside the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). In different periods during the 1990s and 2000s, he served as a senior financial economist at Fannie Mae and as senior director of single-family risk management at Freddie Mac. Ro

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  • First American launches monthly rent automated valuation model,Jonathan Delozier

    First American launches monthly rent automated valuation model

    First American Data & Analytics has released an automated valuation model that estimates monthly rent for residential properties nationwide. The product — called Procision Rental AVM — updates daily on roughly 100 million properties, including single-family homes, condominiums and homes in planned-u

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  • Mortgage rates continue their slow march toward 6%,Neil Pierson

    Mortgage rates continue their slow march toward 6%

    Housing market dynamics have grown more favorable for buyers and sellers in August, and it’s possible that the fall of 2025 could see even better conditions if mortgage rates return to 6%. But they haven’t approached that level in nearly a year and haven’t been consistently below that threshold sinc

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