Government agencies have have taken a lot of heat from advocacy groups, civil rights groups, and lawmakers in the last few months over the sales of delinquent mortgages to private investors. Fannie Mae went another route with its latest sale.
Read More »Fairholme: Status Quo Makes Another Bailout ‘Inevitable’
The Net Worth Sweep, or the sweeping of all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits into Treasury, has been under more intense scrutiny as of late.
Read More »Mike Heid Elected to Fannie Mae Board of Directors
Heid served in several executive positions over nearly three decades at Wells Fargo.
Read More »Housing Forecasts Stay Calm Through Economic Storm
With both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac downwardly revising their projected economic growth for the full year of 2016, what do they expect for housing?
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Portfolio Gets a Little Less Delinquent
Wall Street has figured in another billion-plus dollar non-performing loan (NPL) sale for one of the GSEs.
Read More »Center-Right Coalition Urges GSE Reform
Most everyone agrees that the conservatorships need to end, but cannot agree on how. What did a conservative coalition propose as the solution?
Read More »Fannie Mae Announces Updates to Servicing Guide
What changes did Fannie Mae make to its requirements for servicers with regard to handling foreclosure proceedings?
Read More »More Distressed Borrowers are Keeping Their Homes
There has been a growing trend in the number and type of foreclosure prevention actions completed by the GSEs since the start of the conservatorships.
Read More »Servicers Get Some Help from the GSEs
What change did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac make to their benchmark mortgage modification interest rates, and how will this change help mortgage servicers?
Read More »Is the GSEs’ Status Quo Sustainable?
The Q1 financial reports released by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this week have prompted even more intense questions as to the long-term sustainability of the FHFA's conservatorship of the GSEs, which was meant to be temporary but is now almost eight years old.
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