Finding a suitable candidate could prove difficult because of a $600,000 salary cap placed on the position by Congress back in 2015.

Mortgage lenders that rely on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for liquidity have a simple message for policymakers in Washington regarding what to do about the government-sponsored enterprises: Leave them alone. The two are working just fine.

One housing lobbyist dismissed the bill as misguided, adding: “This is like someone laying on their death bed after drinking and sinning and finally realizing they need to get baptized.”

August often sets the high-water mark for annual purchase-loan business for the agencies…

The letter – signed by trade groups both large and small – comes a day before the 10th anniversary of the federal takeover of Fannie and Freddie...

Since 2012, Fannie and Freddie have been minting money...

For its internal candidate, Freddie has identified David Brickman to succeed Layton.

Only a trace amount – 0.5 percent – of unresolved buyback cases were related to loans purchased by the GSEs before 2009.

There’s a growing concern about a potential reduction in GSE loan limits…

Mortgage lenders selling loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to repurchase fewer defective loans in the second quarter of 2018, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis. GSE sellers repurchased $226.84 million of home loans during the second quarter or provided some other form of indemnification. That was down 5.8 percent from the first three months of the year and represented the lowest quarterly buyback total since the fourth quarter of 2016. Freddie repurchases were up 5.3 percent from the first quarter, while Fannie’s fell 17.6 percent. On a year-to-date basis, combined GSE buybacks were down 7.2 percent from the first half of 2017. Again, Fannie volume was down, Freddie’s was up.