Tag Archives: Freddie Mac

What solutions have Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offered to HAMP borrowers facing higher monthly payments due to resets?

Would a proposal to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a corporation gain the support it needs from private investors?

There is a straightforward solution to preventing volatility in the market resulting from relying too heavily on the GSEs' risk transfer programs to ease the risk to taxpayers, according to one analyst.

A group of influential industry organizations petitioned FHFA Director Mel Watt opposing the approach that many lawmakers, housing advocates, and civil rights groups have called for recently.

Why are homeowners over the age of 55 in a position to greatly influence where the housing market goes over the next decade?

With the first 21 offerings, Freddie Mac’s STACR issuances to date covered 29.38 percent of the agency’s total book of business.

Just how big of an issue are the GSEs' dwindling capital buffer and the FHFA's almost eight-year long conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac becoming?

As part of its strategy to reduce the liquid assets in its mortgage portfolio, Freddie Mac has now sold $4.3 billion worth of non-performing loans.

This week, housing finance reform is once again taking center stage as several industry stakeholders have expressed their concern about the risk to taxpayers while the GSEs remain in conservatorship of the FHFA.

Just how much has the credit quality of loans purchased by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac improved since 2008?