The aggregate unpaid principal balance of Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio fell below its 2016 cap.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Kicks Off 2016 With Rare Expansion
January was only the fourth time since June 2010 that the portfolio has experienced growth month-over-month.
Read More »Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Portfolio Experiences More Expansion to Start 2016
After growing by more than $30 billion during the full year 2015, the portfolio begins the new year with expansion.
Read More »Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Portfolio Experiences Rare Contraction
The serious delinquency rate on loans backed by Freddie Mac is falling, but so are loan modifications.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Contracts for Eighth Straight Month
The serious delinquency rate on single-family mortgages backed by Fannie Mae stayed flat after nearly five years of steady declines, however.
Read More »Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Portfolio Expands for Ninth Straight Month
Expansion was rare for the GSE's total mortgage portfolio from 2010 to 2014. But in 2015, it has been the norm.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Continues Rapid Contraction
The GSE's gross mortgage portfolio has expanded in only three of the last 64 months since June 2010.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Gross Mortgage Portfolio Sees More Substantial Contraction
The serious delinquency rate on single-family mortgage loans backed by Fannie Mae is still well below its pre-crisis levels after declining by three basis points in September down to 1.59 percent. The serious delinquency rate on Fannie Mae-backed single-family mortgage loans has declined every quarter since Q1 2010.
Read More »Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Portfolio Sees Eighth Straight Month of Expansion
With that expansion of the total mortgage portfolio came a drop of four basis points in the serious delinquency rate for loans backed by Freddie Mac, down to 1.41 percent—a year-over-year decline of more than half a percentage point, from 1.96 percent in September 2014.
Read More »Freddie Mac Portfolio Expands Again While Serious Delinquency Rate Drops Further
The serious delinquency rate on Freddie Mac-backed loans is now seven basis points lower than it was in November 2008 at the start of the financial crisis (1.52 percent) and nearly 2 percentage points lower than the national serious delinquency rate reported by CoreLogic for July 2015 (3.4 percent).
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