Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed to reach their multifamily volume caps in 2022, 2023 and probably 2024, FHFA raised the caps from $140 billion to $146 billion for 2025.

Urban Institute researchers suggest the GSEs push for universal flood insurance requirements and multiyear home insurance policies.

An extra inch of rainfall during a hurricane increases the severe delinquency rate of GSE borrowers by about 0.013%.

New capabilities added to Freddie Mac’s basic ML-deal will allow corporate CUSIPs to be converted to municipal CUSIPs without impacting the tax-exempt status of the securities.

Two new partnerships were announced this month that will help assist with housing access on tribal lands.

The REIT pooled nine multifamily affordable commercial real estate loans in a $384 million securitization.

Fannie issuance had a healthy sequential boost but year-over-year decline, while Freddie experienced the opposite.

Old industry hands like Mike Calhoun of CRL and former FHFA acting Director Ed Demarco say getting the GSEs out of conservatorship might be more complicated than the Trump administration believes.

If past is prologue, the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s plan to hire as many as 141 employees may only be aspirational.

The former Freddie executive said eliminating mortgage servicing rights, or transferring them to the GSEs, would eliminate the need for nonbank mortgage servicers to make servicing advances on delinquent loans.