The regulator of the GSEs said it met most of its goals and subgoals for the past year. And once again, FHFA announced plans to significantly grow its staff.
Fannie Mae knows that the loans in its green programs aren’t necessarily super-green, but officials at the GSEs say incremental improvement in existing buildings is a major goal.
The failure of Zillow’s algorithm to provide reliable forecasts of home price changes could mean the GSEs’ automated valuation models are also suspect. Really?
In general, the proposed rule would reduce the required capital for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by decreasing the size of the prescribed leverage buffer...
Critics say the amendments correct some of the flaws in the rule finalized last December, but it’s still far too conservative when compared to historic losses at the GSEs.
The fee, passed a decade ago to help pay for a temporary payroll tax cut, expired Oct. 1. Democrats resurrected it for another decade to help pay for infrastructure priorities.
Roughly half of appraisers who work in both white and minority neighborhoods appear to systematically undervalue homes in predominately minority census tracts.