WASHINGTON For the past several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can't come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3 percent market share to nearly 30 percent of home purchase loans. But now, wildly popular FHA-insured mortgages could be on the verge of becoming more expensive and tougher to obtain.

The agency, which needs to pump up its reserves, considers raising its insurance premiums or increasing minimum down payments, among other possibilities. For several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can't come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3% market share to nearly 30% of home purchase ...

Brooks Tower is back on the list of buildings eligible for financing through the Federal Housing Administration.

For several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can't come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3 percent market share to nearly 30 percent of home purchase...

For the past several years, the Federal Housing Administration has been the go-to financing resource for cash-strapped home buyers who can't come up with a big down payment. It has zoomed from barely a 3 percent market share to nearly 30 percent of home-purchase loans. But now, wildly popular...

Federal Housing Administration mortgages have been the go-to financing option in recent years for home buyers who can't come up with big down payments. But that could...

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal review has found the city of New Orleans and its main redevelopment agency could not prove $11.6 million was properly spent on property and other work over the past five years, and it considers another $38 million for post-Hurricane Katrina work at risk. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development review raises questions about whether the New Orleans ...

WHEN the UK's biggest building society warns of setbacks ahead in the housing market, we should sit up and listen. When the warning coincides with news pointing to a secon

The University of New Mexico Hospital has plans for a medical center in Rio Rancho and to help get the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center up and running, UNMH is looking to the federal government for $143.4 million.

The federal and provincial governments have teamed up to provide $1 million in funding for 20 new affordable housing rental units for low-income people with disabilities in North Bay.[...]