Innovate Housing
The Future of Data: Can Innovation and Privacy Coexist?
Evaluating the trade-offs between data as a driver for innovations that can reduce housing costs, and concerns about privacy.
Innovate Housing
Three Strategies for a Simple, Stress-Free, Affordable Home Transaction Process
Real estate startups are trying out new business models like iBuying that can lower barriers to entry and housing costs.
Money & Mortgages
Neighborhood decline reversed through inventive refinance program
The Illinois Housing Development Authority, Fannie Mae, and U.S. Bank partner for I-Refi’s $50,000 in household assistance.
Innovate Housing
Can New Trends and Technologies in Construction Achieve Scale?
Has the time finally come for new materials, technologies, and techniques that have the potential to transform construction?
Innovate Housing
Going Digital: Transforming a Paper-Based Industry for the New Age
Changing customer expectations are giving companies an opportunity to deliver a more digital customer experience.
Innovate Housing
Housing turns hip: Fannie Mae’s Jonathan Lawless talks innovation at SXSW
Affordable housing and the need to innovate are themes now permeating the mainstream.
Business Trends
Application programming interfaces will reshape the mortgage business
About half of lenders surveyed have either incorporated APIs into their mortgage process or used them on a trial basis.
Innovate Housing
Leveling the Playing Field with Frictionless Finance Models
Fintechs are offering creative financing options that cater to consumers’ wants while providing options for the underserved.
Money & Mortgages
Early adopter calls HomeReady a boon to community reinvestment
TD Bank has embraced Fannie Mae’s affordable lending product, calling it a boon to community lending efforts.
Business Trends
Lender outlook on profit margin, mortgage demand expectation sinks
More lenders have a negative view of consumer demand for purchase and refinance mortgages.
Money & Mortgages
Fairway is saving time and money with property inspection waivers
Fannie Mae’s Day 1 Certainty initiative streamlines key aspects of the mortgage origination process.
