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Inside The GSEs

April 25, 2025

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Largest GSE Servicers Lose Market Share in First Quarter

Chase Home Financial remained the largest GSE servicer with a portfolio of $589.62 billion at the end of March. But Mr. Cooper came in a close second. (Includes two data tables.) Read More

Bill Ackman Details Quick Way to End GSEs’ Conservatorship

Like most GSE reform plans, the hedge funder’s plan to privatize Fannie and Freddie starts with Treasury writing down its senior preferred shares and FHFA sharply reducing the capital requirements for the GSEs. Read More

Trump Foe James Accused of Mortgage Fraud by Pulte

FHFA’s director alleges that New York State Attorney General Letitia James lied on mortgage applications in order to qualify for GSE loans. Read More

Trade Groups Look for New Ways to Push Their Agendas

NAMB has urged FHFA to end the GSEs’ use of LLPAs targeting second homes and investment properties and to lower the AMI threshold for borrowers to qualify for affordable housing programs. Read More

LLPAs on Second Homes Didn’t Work as Planned

CFPB researchers determined that, although loans for second homes declined after FHFA imposed steep fees on those loan types, the expected increase in primary-residence loans never materialized. Read More

GSEs’ Risk Tied to Private MI Declining, OIG Finds

Although high interest rates have cut into GSE acquisitions, depriving PMIs of new business, they have also prevented homeowners from selling, allowing insurers to hold on to the business they have. Read More

Senate Democrats Call for Investigation of Pulte

Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee asked the FHFA OIG to determine whether the agency’s director has broken any laws during his tumultuous first few weeks in office. Read More

GSE Shareholders in Yet Another Appeal

Next month, plaintiffs in Fisher v. United States, a takings case challenging the GSE net worth sweep, will take a second stab at an appeal. Read More

GSE Roundup

GSE boardroom changes; Pulte’s plans; GSE capital market moves. Read More

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