The MBA Opens Doors Foundation announced it raised $644,000 during the Mortgage Bankers Association's 2019 Annual Convention and Expo, held in Austin, Texas, Oct. 27-30.

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Delinquency rates for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties fell to their lowest level since 1995, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported yesterday.

FHA released its 2019 Annual Report to Congress, showing the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund--which fell to dangerously low levels earlier in the decade--rose to its highest level since fiscal year 2007.

Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C., said expected easing trade tensions, stimulative fiscal policies and continued consumer spending spurred an upgrade to its 2020 forecast for real GDP growth of 1.9 percent.

HUD released its annual report detailing the financial condition of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. And this past Tuesday, the FHFA published its semi-annual CRT Progress Report outlining the current state of the GSEs’ credit risk transfer programs, which reduce the GSEs’--and ultimately taxpayers’--exposure to mortgage credit risk.

The Mortgage Bankers Association this morning released a white paper, Role of CMBS in the Financing of Commercial and Multifamily Real Estate in America, which provides an overview of the commercial mortgage-backed securities market and highlights the vital role it plays as a capital source for the financing of commercial real estate.