Tag Archives: Freddie Mac

The newest business feature of the single-family rental market is comprised of large investors—backed by private equity—that use a buy-to-rent strategy, but how does this size up compared to traditional, professionally-manged apartment complexes and will these businesses last?

Millions of underwater borrowers lowered their payments through HARP. Why are many of them leaving the program now?

The U.S. housing market is now considered to be in the "stable" range. . what factors are driving the improvement?

After months of contraction, mortgage-related investments pick up the pace.

Both GSEs have made a substantial push in the last year to follow the directive of their conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to excise NPLs and deeply delinquent loans from their residential mortgage portfolios.

Two and a half years after launching the first credit risk transfer program, Freddie Mac has succeeded in the transferring of a substantial portion of credit risk on more than $385 billion in single-family mortgages.

Freddie Mac and the Lenders One Mortgage Cooperative recently partnered to help mortgage bankers boost their business in 2016.

The GSE filed the suit in September 2014 accusing the accounting firm of "gross negligence" regarding the auditing of certain mortgage loans Freddie Mac purchased from Taylor Bean & Whitaker before the housing crash.

The serious delinquency rate on loans backed by Freddie Mac is falling, but so are loan modifications.

Fewer and fewer residential mortgage loans are seriously delinquent (90 or more days past due) as the crisis passes its seven-year anniversary. What factors are driving the continued decline?