Conservatives argue that the government subsidy of the FHLBanks doesn’t support housing and mostly benefits large banks rather than homeowners.

Thousands of stakeholders responded to FHFA’s RFI on the prospect of the GSEs establishing tenant protections for the multifamily properties they back. Most respondents were tenants.

The limits on Fannie’s and Freddie’s annual investment in low-income housing tax credit programs has jumped from $850 million to $1 billion each.

Freddie executed its first five-year K-deals since 2016 and its first single-asset single-borrower securities in two years.

Alberto Musalem, a director on the Freddie Mac board, will soon have a seat at the table of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Measured by profits per employee, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are among the most successful companies on the planet.

A mortgage application in which both members are male is 8.9% less likely to be approved than if the co-applicants were of different sexes, according to new research.

The rapid runoff at the Federal Reserve’s overnight repo operations could mean quantitative tightening will end sooner than expected.

Appraisers are supposed to adjust the value of comparable properties to account for home price appreciation. FHFA found that most either don’t make these time adjustments or make them too small.

Chris Bennett, a veteran MBS trader and founder of Vice Capital Markets, suggests looking to the five-year Treasury rate for current coupon mortgages.