The government-sponsored enterprise received approval from the Federal Housing Finance Agency in June 2024 to acquire second liens.

FHFA removed mention of DEI from a key GSE evaluation standard.

The nomination hearing for Scott Turner to lead HUD is scheduled for Jan. 16.

For 2025, analysts at Morningstar DBRS predict modest home sales, modest price appreciation and mortgage rates oscillating around the 6%–7% range.

The revisions establish some ground rules that will apply if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are ever released from conservatorship.

The hedge fund billionaire predicts Treasury will write off its senior preferred shares in the GSEs and exercise its warrants for 80% of their common stock.

The new scorecard highlights modest changes in the regulator's priorities for the GSEs.

Lenders supported the regulator’s decision to lower some of the goals from the 2022-2024 rule.

Because Fannie’s book of business is by far the larger, it’s more impacted by the stability capital buffer than Freddie.

Among many other issues, the shutdown would pause authorization for new flood insurance policies under the National Flood Insurance Program, potentially impacting home sales.