An effort by landlords and real estate groups to overturn the Biden administration’s new COVID-19 residential eviction ban is set to move quickly through the appeals courts. So reports Reuters.

Mortgage rates have held steady as markets digested the spread of the Delta variant and signals from the Federal Reserve about economic stimulus. So reports MarketWatch.

Robust second-quarter earnings reports by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have set the stage for further contention over what should become of the government-sponsored mortgage finance giants. So reports Inman.