A homebuyer with very good or excellent credit (780 to 850) taking out a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage for $400,000 will ...

Stock in Fair Isaac (FICO) — better known as FICO — is down more than 13% after two federal agencies announced Wednesday that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing ...

The minimum credit score to buy a house has been clearly defined in recent years. For most borrowers, the hurdle has been a FICO score of 620 for a conventional loan. That requirement is now all but ...

CNBC Select named the top mortgage lenders for bad credit in a variety of categories, including Federal Housing Authority ...

On April 22, the FHFA and HUD jointly announced that the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will begin accepting mortgage loans assessed using new credit score models ...

New white paper by Milliman shows FICO Score 10T outperforms VantageScore 4.0 on all mortgage types, including GSE and FHA loans Global analytics software leader FICO (NYSE: FICO) is elevating ...

The Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac will adopt VantageScore 4.0 and FICO 10T for mortgage underwriting, marking the first major credit scoring update in decades. The change ...

Getting a mortgage with a bad credit history is possible, but you'll likely face higher rates and fewer options.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will continue requiring lenders to use tri-merge credit reports for single-family ...

Last week, VantageScore, one result of that act, finally went live in a pilot program with 21 lenders, offering a direct ...

A Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan is a government-insured mortgage issued by an FHA-approved lender to help borrowers who don't meet conventional standards.