Conservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin said the Federal Reserve’s exit from the MBS market is helping drive up interest rates in the affordable housing space. The remedy, he said, is GSE reform.

WI certificates are expected to become the primary way for investors to acquire the A-M and A-2 classes of Freddie’s signature K-deals.

During a recent congressional hearing, FHFA Director Sandra Thompson said the agency will conduct a 90-year lookback as well as a forward-looking analysis of the FHLBank system.

Dennis Hermonstyne named as CCO at the GSE.

At the first of three planned listening sessions, FHFA heard that for-profit investors increasingly use litigation to pressure nonprofit affordable housing developers to sell LIHTC-funded properties at minimal prices.

The number of loans in Fannie and Freddie portfolios that are less than two years delinquent nearly tripled in 2021, courtesy of COVID.

The mortgage selling policy proposals now submitted by the GSEs gives FHFA adequate insight into their credit risk, an OIG report found.

Fannie and Freddie have published translations of the supplemental consumer information forms into five languages.

The Fannie/Freddie regulator indicated it will review the impact of the ERCF on the UMBS market, but for now won’t delay implementation of the new fee.

Loan Product Advisor, Freddie’s automated underwriting system, will soon be able to identify rent payments from the bank accounts of homebuyers who opt-in to the program.