A top housing finance regulator announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would allow lenders to use the traditional FICO ...

President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell of "choking out the housing market" in his ...

U.S. single-family homebuilding and permits for future construction fell sharply in June as high mortgage rates and economic ...

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-backed companies that help with housing market affordability. They buy home loans from banks, bundle them into investments, and sell them to raise money.