The GSE eases rules on construction loans.

Requiring homebuyers and sellers to each pay their own agent’s fee would dramatically increase the upfront cash needed to buy a home.

Modest increases in short-term and medium-term debt may indicate Fannie and Freddie are ready to return to the capital markets.

The GSEs will use the capital planning process to calculate their stress capital buffer, which is set at a minimum of 0.75% of adjusted total assets.

Starting next year, investors and other industry stakeholders will have a more granular view of the capital status of Fannie and Freddie.

Donna Corley, one of the most influential women in housing finance, joins the exodus of senior executives leaving the GSEs.

The new rule may clear up some of the confusion surrounding how Fannie and Freddie calculate their capital requirements under the ERCF.

The first Black woman to serve as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency squeaked through the confirmation with just one Republican vote, Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota.

Some experts now say Federal Reserve purchases of agency MBS will fall to zero by September.