FHA loans can help borrowers with less-than-ideal credit and cash. But they aren’t perfect.

Government refinance applications increased by 42% over the week, according to the MBA’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending Feb. 28, 2025. This jump was mainly due to the dip in ...

Most mortgage lenders require a FICO ® Score of at least 620 for a conventional mortgage. If you don't hit that threshold, ...

HUD released a 2025 shutdown contingency plan for a lapse in funding on September 29 As the federal government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, the U.S. Department of Housing and ...

The combined cost of mortgages, taxes and insurance now takes up a larger share of household income than it has since the early 1980s, according to an affordability index from John Burns Research & ...