To meet FHFA’s new mission-driven purchase volume requirements, Freddie Mac will modify its guarantee-fee discounts for low-, very-low- and moderate-income loans.
On the rural housing front, Freddie expects to increase its SFI purchase target from 3,600 to 3,900 loans in 2020 to as much as 4,800 units this year...
In either case, forbearance imposes some restrictions on property owners. And this: Happy Holidays from the staff of Inside Mortgage Finance. Be safe and be well.
Mark Calabria: “Requiring the enterprises to develop living wills helps FHFA fulfill its responsibility to ensure that the failure of an enterprise would harm neither taxpayers nor the mortgage market.”
Like many companies in the sector, Capital Senior Living has been deeply impacted by the pandemic. The company posted a $215 million loss in the third quarter, $191 million of which it attributed to the transfer of these properties to Fannie.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 19.4% of Black borrowers missed or delayed their September mortgage payment. The University of Southern California’s Understanding America Study put the figure at just 5.9%.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he is “not going to do anything that jeopardizes taxpayers.” But his real concerns? How to adequately capitalize Fannie and Freddie first.
The FHFA wants the GSEs to hold liquid assets to cover 30 days of anticipated cash outflows, plus a $10 billion buffer. That’s similar to the liquidity coverage ratio employed by bank regulators.
Justice Breyer characterized the net worth sweep as the nationalization of the GSEs. The government and the court-appointed amicus curiae disagreed, describing it as a simple renegotiation of a contract.