When Will Mortgage Rates Go Down? Forecast for Rest of 2025
Analysts revised their expectations for 2025 and 2026 to include higher mortgage rates, delivering bad news to aspiring ...
Powell says privatizing Fannie and Freddie makes some sense in the longer term
Powell gave at least a bit of support for the push to make mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac private businesses again. Under questioning, Powell said that putting Fannie and Freddie back into ...
Freddie, Fannie shares gain as Fed's Powell underscores importance of guaranteed 30-year mortgages
Shares of housing giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were on pace for a second day of gains as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pointed to the importance of 30-year fixed-rate guaranteed mortgages ...
Billionaire Bill Ackman may get huge housing market gift from Musk
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have anchored the housing market as government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) for decades. Both ...
BAC Mulls Over Buying $9B Residential Mortgage Loans From TD
Bank of America intends to acquire residential mortgage loans from TD to expand mortgage lending and strengthen its loan ...
Greystone Provides $20.8 Million in Fannie Mae DUS® Financing for Multifamily Property in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Greystone, a leading national commercial real estate finance company, has provided a $20,777,000 Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting & Servicing (DUS®) loan to refinance a 206-unit multifamily property ...
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Reforming Fannie and Freddie is overdue, but must be done carefully
The government-sponsored enterprises were not meant to remain in conservatorship permanently, but privatizing them once again must include a new set of rules that minimize market disruptions and ...