Tag Archives: Private Investors

In an effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio, Freddie Mac has sold 88 non-performing residential first-lien loans as part of the GSE’s Extended Timeline Pool Offering.

The share of homes investors are purchasing is slowing, with some cities seeing activity decrease by more than 60%.

Citing recent data from First American Data & Analytics, investor purchases of residential homes as rental properties as a share of all residential home sales, have increased sharply over the course of the last year.  This number has risen from ...

Amendments to the capital framework for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will refine the risk-based capital treatment of the GSE’s credit risk transfer.

Would a proposal to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a corporation gain the support it needs from private investors?

There is a straightforward solution to preventing volatility in the market resulting from relying too heavily on the GSEs' risk transfer programs to ease the risk to taxpayers, according to one analyst.

Bargains are hard to find in the housing market these days, but the incentives are still there for private investors.

Schwartz noted that many private placement deals have taken place vs. traditional private label securitization transactions, which have been almost nonexistent since the conservatorship began.