Nearly all of those credit risk transactions conducted by the GSEs have been of the back-end variety, however, that changed on Monday, when Freddie Mac announced a new pilot front-end credit risk transfer offering, Freddie Mac Deep MI CRT.
Read More »FHA Permits PACE-Assessed Properties
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs debate is heating up with the FHA announcement permitting FHA-insured mortgages on some PACE-assessed properties.
Read More »HUD Provides Snapshot of Housing Market Health
HUD’s latest housing scorecard provides a snapshot of the recovery of our nation’s housing market during August, according to a recent report from the agency.
Read More »A Look Back at Eight Years of Conservatorship of the GSEs
Tuesday marks the eight-year anniversary of the conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here's an in-depth look at the GSE's since the conservatorship took place.
Read More »Urban Institute: Improving GSEs’ Risk Sharing Effort
Urban Institute gives advice on how to improve and expand the effort of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's risk sharing.
Read More »HARP Extended; FHFA Offers High LTV Refi Option
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Thursday it will be extending its Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) until September 30, 2017.
Read More »Foreclosure Prevention Activities Drop Further in May
The number of foreclosure prevention activities completed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has continued to decrease as the number of nationwide foreclosures continues its decline since reaching peak levels in 2009 and 2010.
Read More »Government Passes the Baton to Servicers
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, HUD, and FHFA released a white paper designed to guide future loss mitigation and reflect on the lessons learned from the implementation of these housing recovery programs.
Read More »HUD Reports Continued Progress For Housing Recovery
HUD’s latest housing scorecard, which examines housing recovery data, HUD’s programs performance, and areas for improvement, showed continued progress in the nation’s housing recovery for June
Read More »GSEs Nearing Loan Modification Milestone
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have continued to complete foreclosure prevention actions, and are close to achieving a milestone in the number of permanent loan modifications completed since the start of the conservatorships.
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