Industry Insights
Problem Solvers with Big Ideas: Meet the Women Who Invent at Fannie Mae
Nancy Jardini sat down with several of our women inventors to explore their ideas about innovation and their paths to success.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Perspectives
Growth is increasing rental demand, rents in some regions
These markets illustrate the fundamentals that drive the multifamily market, including one very big factor: jobs.
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.
Affordable Housing
Making the Link Between Resident Services and Successful Affordable Housing
A New Key To Affordable Housing Is Enhanced Resident Services
Business Trends
Originator creates a niche with Fannie Mae HomeStyle Renovation
Consumers can borrow up to 50 percent of the as-completed value of the improved property in a purchase or refi.
