Mortgage lenders are predicting the market will return to some semblance of normal in 2022, at least that’s according to Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey, which is a quarterly poll of senior lending executives to assess their views and outlook across the mortgage market. Among ...
Read More »Fannie Mae Issues $100B in Green Bonds
Fannie Mae hit a major milestone in 2021 as it has now issued $100 billion in green, multifamily mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The GSE began issuing the MBS 10 years ago to support sustainable and affordable housing for residents in properties financed through its Green Building Certification program ...
Read More »Fannie Mae Moves To AWS
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, has announced that Fannie Mae, a source of financing for mortgages in the U.S., is using AWS to help solve the biggest challenges in housing. Fannie Mae uses the breadth and depth of AWS capabilities, ...
Read More »Consumers Feel the Economy Is on the Wrong Track
Fannie Mae reports that U.S. consumers’ attitude toward the economy is on the cynical side, with contrasting feelings on home buying and home-selling conditions.
Read More »Fannie Mae Names New Finance Leadership
GSE announces changes to its finance leadership structure as Chryssa Halley is named CFO, and Jim Holmberg is promoted to Controller.
Read More »Homebuilders Maintain Positive Outlook
Despite lingering supply issues, housing permits increased to an annual pace of 1.65 million in October, a positive sign for home builders to close out the year.
Read More »Share of Loans in Forbearance Inches Closer to 2% Mark
Improvements in the nation’s jobs numbers have increased the number of forbearance exits as estimated total of just one million homeowners remain in forbearance plans.
Read More »Consumers Anticipate Rise in Mortgage Rates
New Fannie Mae survey finds that U.S. homeowners growing increasingly concerned about the direction of the economy.
Read More »The Domino Effect
From labor shortages and supply-chain issues to an ongoing low-volume environment, high-level economic factors have challenged the property preservation sector like never before. Here’s how the industry is finding a way forward.
Read More »GSE Forbearance Exits Reach Slowest Pace Since August
Forbearance exits trickled below 1%, as the share of total loans in some stage of forbearance fell to 2.15% nationwide.
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