Warren and Capuano are trying to prevent the delinquent mortgage loans from being acquired by investors who are quick to foreclose on them. The lawmakers would rather see the loans acquired by non-profits who would be more likely to engage in the loss mitigation process with borrowers and prevent foreclosure.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s Increased Loss Mitigation Efforts Pay Dividends
REO inventory for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae dropped by 14 percent during Q2, down to 86,515 for the two GSEs combined, as property dispositions continued to outpace property acquisitions. It was the first time the REO inventory for the GSEs has been below 100,000 since 2009.
Read More »Conservatorship Continues Seven Years Later With No End In Sight
While many housing stakeholders and lawmakers agree that the conservatorship needs to end, the issue of the GSEs' future remains a source of contention. Some of the GSEs' biggest investors, such as Fairholme Funds and Pershing Square, have filed lawsuits over the sweeping of GSE profits into Treasury, which began in 2012 when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac returned to profitability.
Read More »Nomura’s Penalty in Mortgage-Backed Securities Lawsuit Increased to $839 Million
Nomura Holdings and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have agreed to pay an extra $33 million in addition to the $806 million a judge ordered them to pay for allegedly misrepresenting the quality of mortgage-backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the run-up to the financial crisis.
Read More »Royal Bank of Scotland Loses Bid to Have FHFA’s MBS Suit Dismissed
A federal judge in Connecticut has denied a bid by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the FHFA accusing the bank of misleading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the sale of $32 billion worth of residential mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis.
Read More »Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Exceeding Credit Risk Transfer Goals
FHFA said that going forward it will set specific goals in the annual conservatorship scorecard and work closely with staff members at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to help the GSEs develop and evaluate their credit risk transfer structures. FHFA is encouraging the GSEs to continue engaging in large volumes of meaningful credit risk transfer.
Read More »FHFA Announces Final Rule for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Affordable Housing Goals
The proposed housing goals rule for the GSEs was first issued in August 2014. More than 144 comments were made on the proposed rule, all of which were considered by the FHFA in the development of the final rule. According to the FHFA, the final rule sets identical benchmarks in all categories for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Read More »Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Are Turning Up Efforts to Sell Non-Performing Loans
As they promised earlier this year, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have intensified their efforts in the last few months to rid their single-family residential mortgage portfolios of deeply delinquent, non-performing loans (NPLs).
Read More »GSEs Have Totaled Nearly 3 Million Home Retention Actions During Conservatorship
More than half of the total foreclosure prevention actions completed by the FHFA in nearly seven years (1.82 million) have come in the form of permanent loan modifications, according to FHFA.
Read More »Watchdog Finds FHFA’s HFE Commission Program Is Not Meeting Its Objective
The Office of Inspector General for the FHFA found in a compliance review that the Agency's program to commission Housing Finance Examiners (HFEs) was not on track to meet its main objective, which was to produce conditioned examiners who were qualified to lead major risk sections of GSE exams.
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