Freddie veterans Steve Lineberger and Meg McElgunn will run the Western and Central districts as well as the Northeastern and Southeastern districts.

The new goals don’t deviate dramatically from what the agency proposed in August, but the mulitfamily goals will only apply to 2022 instead of the usual three-year time span.

GSEs issue lender letters/bulletins tweaking their guidelines for lenders and servicers.

In 2022, the GSEs will be able to purchase loans nearing $1 million, cutting into what has typically been the non-agency jumbo market.

Critics argue that the mechanical method for determining the loan limits distorts the market and makes it harder for the GSEs to meet their affordable housing goals.

Bitcoin and its competitors remain unwanted in the U.S. mortgage market.

The mortgage giant is tied by an alphabet soup to the even larger cloud giant.

The new system should be able to gather most of the rent roll data directly from popular property management systems.

Freddie has seen a big shift in how lenders sell loans, with the share of cash sales dropping sharply in 2021 while swaps have gained favor. The same thing happened at Fannie, though not as dramatically. (Includes two data charts.)

Roughly half of appraisers who work in both white and minority neighborhoods appear to systematically undervalue homes in predominately minority census tracts.