When questioned about the steep fee the GSEs charge to buy early forbear-ance loans, the FHFA director turned the tables on the lawmakers: Why didn’t Congress pay for it in the CARES Act?

Wells Fargo Securities predicts the delinquency rate for high quality Fannie collateral — mortgages with loan-to-value ratios between 60% and 97% — will reach 4.3% in October.

FHFA officers told the inspector general that they believed performing some of the required security assessments “was an inefficient use of agency resources.”

Over the past two weeks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have collectively priced multifamily deals totaling nearly $4 billion.

Chris Boyle will be in charge of all external-facing functions at the digital mortgage lending platform, including strategy, marketing and business development efforts.

Housing-finance watchers are gearing up for December when the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the government’s net worth sweep of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits.

The Structured Finance Association said it is concerned FHFA believes that, if the GSEs have capital levels similar to banks, the need for an explicit guarantee will be eliminated.

Nonprofit groups said the new rule will lead to higher guarantee fees, potentially pricing many low-income families and families of color out of the GSE channel.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will have likely added nearly $1.5 trillion of MBS to the System Open Markets Account by January, and the Fed will once again own more than a third of all agency product.

The move indicates that investors holding certain Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac credit-risk transfers can expect losses.