Ian Ouwerkerk, who began running multifamily underwriting and credit for Freddie on an interim basis in the first quarter, has been promoted permanently to the job.

Sheila Bair, who resigned as Fannie board chair earlier this year, said the GSEs are ready to exit conservatorship.

The former Credit Suisse executive will replace J. Douglass Watt, who is retiring in November.

The regulator of the GSEs rejiggers its leadership team, firming up supervision of its Divisions of Housing Mission and Goals and Bank Regulation.

The former FHFA director said, given the Federal Reserve’s commitment to fight inflation, home prices could fall by double digits in percentage terms over the next few years.

HR veteran Katie Jones has joined the enterprise from PRA Group, a global debt collections firm based in Virginia.

Dennis Hermonstyne named as CCO at the GSE.

The real estate investment management firm has tapped the former Fannie official in charge of developing Desktop Underwriter to handle technology practice.

Almost exactly a year after taking the helm as acting director, Thompson begins a five-year term as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. She is the first woman to hold the job.

Rich Martinez joins the growing roster of executives abandoning the GSEs for greener pastures.