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Trump Sparks Backlash Over Affordable Homeownership Comments

Trump Sparks Backlash Over Affordable Homeownership Comments

by Phil Hall | Jan 30, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

President Trump generated a wave of mostly negative response from his comments during yesterday’s Cabinet meeting where he insisted on keeping home prices high and appeared to denigrate many first-time homebuyers as not being deserving of the American Dream. During...
Report: FHFA’s Pulte Quietly Changed GSE Portfolio Limits to Aid Trump’s $200 Billion Mortgage Bond Purchase

Report: FHFA’s Pulte Quietly Changed GSE Portfolio Limits to Aid Trump’s $200 Billion Mortgage Bond Purchase

by Phil Hall | Jan 26, 2026 | Current News & Events, Mortgage Information, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte accommodated President Trump’s announcement of a federal purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds by making a unilateral and unpublicized policy change that enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise the...
Sen. Warren Demands DOJ Records on Probe into Fed Chairman Powell

Sen. Warren Demands DOJ Records on Probe into Fed Chairman Powell

by Phil Hall | Jan 21, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, is demanding access to the records related to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over claims that he may have committed perjury...
Sen. Warren Demands DOJ Records on Probe into Fed Chairman Powell

Sen. Warren Accuses FHFA’s Pulte of Weaponizing Mortgage Fraud Probes

by Phil Hall | Sep 26, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is spearheading a demand by Senate Democrats that Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte produce documents on his office’s mortgage fraud investigations into three of President Trump’s political foes. Warren, the Ranking...
Senate Democrats Urge FHFA’s Pulte to Focus on Lowering Housing Costs

Senate Democrats Urge FHFA’s Pulte to Focus on Lowering Housing Costs

by Phil Hall | Aug 29, 2025 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

A trio Senate Democrats sent a letter to Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), to using his position for political machinations and to focus on lowering housing costs. The senators – Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Senate...
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