NAR prioritizes housing affordability in 2026 advocacy, legislative goals

NAR prioritizes housing affordability in 2026 advocacy, legislative goals

Tacking housing supply and affordability In the report, NAR highlighted some notable advocacy numbers for 2025, including seeing membership of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus, a bipartisan group working to tackle housing... Read more »
FHFA sets 2026-2028 housing goals for GSEs

FHFA sets 2026-2028 housing goals for GSEs

The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 requires the FHFA to establish several annual housing goals for single-family and multifamily mortgages purchased by the enterprises. FHFA published a... Read more »
Fannie and Freddie’s Low-Income Homebuyer Goals Dialed Back

Fannie and Freddie’s Low-Income Homebuyer Goals Dialed Back

Saying it wants to serve more middle class borrowers, the Trump administration is scaling back housing goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that are aimed at helping provide mortgages to low-income... Read more »
Growth Goals For 2025? 3 Data Pulse Can Help: Tech Review

Growth Goals For 2025? 3 Data Pulse Can Help: Tech Review

Craig Rowe reviews a recruiting and retention solution called 3 Data Pulse, designed to assist real estate teams, brokers and operations personnel in agent recruiting, retention and management. Adding nuance to our... Read more »
FHFA finalizes new housing goals for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

FHFA finalizes new housing goals for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week announced a new final rule establishing affordable housing goals for the loan purchases of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2025... Read more »
Optimal Blue’s Scott Smith talks long-term goals, competition in mortgage tech

Optimal Blue’s Scott Smith talks long-term goals, competition in mortgage tech

Optimal Blue — a provider of secondary market solutions and actionable data services — plans to solidify its position as an end-to-end solution from pricing a loan to hedging, trading and selling... Read more »