Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to report declining balances in their retained mortgage portfolios during the second quarter – with a few wrinkles. [Includes one chart.]
Both government-sponsored enterprises are comfortably within the maximum $250.0 billion mortgage portfolios they are permitted to have under the terms of their conservatorship.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency this week stopped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from financing corporate landlords that buy single-family rental properties – sometimes in bulk – declaring that SFR operators do not need the “liquidity provided by the enterprises.”
The latest non-agency mortgage-backed security from JPMorgan Chase will include a higher share of conforming mortgages than the previous issuance from the firm. Chase is preparing to issue a $999.0 million MBS, according to presale reports from DBRS, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service. Mortgages eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises account for 65.1 percent of the collateral, amounting to $650.3 million. GSE-eligible mortgages ...
Freddie Mac Tuesday afternoon announced an approximate $1.45 billion Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction of a pool of seasoned reperforming loans, the largest SLST deal of this year...
Fannie Mae came under heavy criticism from certain elected officials and affordable housing advocates for extending $1 billion in financing to Invitation Home Loans, an SFR operator that’s publicly traded.
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