GSE Business Volume Booms in Early 2009 As Mortgage Market Turns More Conservative
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last month posted their biggest monthly volume in new mortgage-securities issuance in nearly five years as a surge of refinance business poured into the secondary market, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance.Together, the two government-sponsored enterprises issued a whopping $144.85 billion of single-family... [Includes three charts]