The FHFA director’s predilection for conducting official business on X provides housing-finance advocates a unique opportunity to lobby him directly.

VantageScore 4.0 is now available to all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sellers. And FHFA Director Bill Pulte is pondering ending the tri-merge standard.

Fannie Mae has reportedly fired 10 senior executives, including senior vice presidents Mark Palim and Devang Doshi.

Trade groups agree that the reputational harm provision of the suspended counterparty program regulation is redundant.

New PMIERs tables assigning risk factors to loans based on credit scores and LTV ratios strongly resemble the GSEs’ LLPA tables.

More homebuyers are being forced to bring more cash, renegotiate the sale price or restructure their mortgage.

The Trump administration continues to pressure homebuilders to address affordability by focusing more on first-time homebuyers.

Urban Institute researchers believe credit score gaming by lenders will raise scores for 44% of borrowers. Officials at FICO claim shopping appears to be occurring now that the GSEs accept VantageScore.

New business grew at both enterprises despite an across-the-board decrease in refinance loan acquisitions.

Construction loans may be too risky for the GSEs to purchase at scale, but Fannie has other products that help increase and preserve supply.