Freddie Prices First Lower LTV STACR of 2018. Freddie Mac priced a $900 million Structured Agency Credit Risk debt notes offering last week, its first lower loan-to-value deal of the year. STACR 2018-DNA1 has a reference pool of single-family mortgages with an unpaid principal balance of approximately $34.7 billion. The reference pool includes loans with LTVs ranging from 60 to 80 percent. CoreLogic to Redistribute GSE CRT Data. CoreLogic announced this week that it is redistributing credit risk transfer loan-level data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The CRT redistribution will include Fannie Mae’s Connecticut Avenue Securities data as well as data from Freddie Mac’s Structured Agency...
Ginnie Mae would become the linchpin of the conventional secondary mortgage market of the future, providing an explicit government guarantee for MBS issued by one of several new entities, under a plan being drafted by Senate Republicans.
The National Association of Realtors this week asked the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower the MBS guarantee fees charged by the two government-sponsored enterprises, citing lower corporate tax rates ushered in under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Bill Maloni, a retired Fannie executive who’s been tracking the reform debate for years, believes the Corker bill, if enacted as is, eventually will place the secondary market in the hands of the megabanks.
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