MBA forecasts that unemployment increases, a rise in property taxes, the resumption of student debt payments, and the potential for natural disasters will impact loan performance in the future months. Here’s what September’s forbearance data reveals.
Read More »Freddie Mac Launches New Down Payment Assistance Tool
The new DPA One option works to quickly and efficiently access and compare down payment assistance programs in order to help more first-time homebuyers achieve homeownership.
Read More »GSEs Sell Off $30B of Non-Performing Loans
Between the non-performing loan sales program’s inception in 2014 and the end of 2022, the GSEs have sold off a collective $30 billion in loans to the private sector.
Read More »Fannie Mae Announces Sale of Non-Performing Loans
As part of the GSE’s effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio, Fannie Mae has sold two pools comprised of 1,500-plus loans totaling more than $235 million in unpaid principal balance.
Read More »Fannie Mae Partners With Pulsenomics on New Home Price Expectations Survey
The GSE, in conjunction with research and consulting firm Pulsenomics, will produce a quarterly poll surveying more than 100 housing experts across the industry and academia to forecast future home price changes.
Read More »GSEs Complete Nearly 50K Foreclosure Prevention Actions in Q2
The FHFA’s latest Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report for the second quarter found that, to date, more than 6.8 million struggling homeowners have been assisted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during conservatorship.
Read More »Fannie Mae Executes its Eighth CIRT of 2023
The GSE’s latest Credit Insurance Risk Transfer consists of approximately 27,000 single-family mortgage loans with an outstanding unpaid principal balance of approximately $8.4 billion.
Read More »Freddie Mac Sells $586 Million in Non-Performing Residential Loans
The GSE has announced the sale, via auction, of more than 3,500 non-performing residential first lien loans (NPLs) from its mortgage-related investments portfolio as part of Freddie Mac’s Standard Pool Offerings.
Read More »Ginnie Mae Revises HMBS Pooling Eligibility Requirements
Changes to Ginnie Mae’s HMBS program will improve issuer liquidity and provide issuers with continuous access to capital market sources of funding to securitize HMBS participation.
Read More »Ginnie Mae’s MBS Portfolio Nears $2.5T in August
According to Ginnie Mae, August 2023’s new mortgage-backed securities issuance has supported the financing of more than 123,000 households, including 59,000 of that number comprised of first-time buyers.
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