Payroll tax cut may hurt housing market

To pay for the two-month payroll tax cut, a small fee will be
levied for a decade on all mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac. That also makes it harder to overhaul the housing finance
system.The new mortgage fee to fund the temporary extension of the
payroll tax cut could damp the still-sluggish real estate market
and complicate efforts to overhaul the nation's wounded housing
finance system.