Tag: Fannie and Freddie
Freddie Mac assesses the multifamily housing market
Last Friday, FreddieMac released a report on the mid-year 2018 outlook for the multifamily housing market. The report looks back at where the market...
Freddie Mac talks housing market fundamentals
Recently Steve Guggenmos, Aaron Dunn and Sara Hoffman of Freddie Mac Multifamily recorded a podcast discussing multifamily housing market fundamentals.
Reaching the top
Hoffman reported that market...
Cool on Fannie, Freddie reform
Congress is mulling changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could mean big changes in the apartment investment market.
The two financing giants handle...
Three-comma deal
Willy Walker, Walker & Dunlop Chairman and CEO, commented, “It is a true honor to have been selected by Greystar to finance the largest...
The trillion dollar consolidation
The returns that large-scale single-family rentals (SFR) are producing are now measuring up to institutional standards and the management is under control. It wasn’t...
Rebuilding housing on a strong foundation
The conservatorship used taxpayer money to shore up these part-public, part-private entities, which accounted for roughly two-thirds of both single-family and multifamily mortgage markets....
Multifamily lending starting to level off
“The forecast anticipates continued strength and growth,” says Jamie Woodwell, vice president for the research and economics group at MBA.
That’s still going to be...
GSA lenders shift into high gear
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each purchased more than $10 billion in multifamily loans in the first quarter of 2015, providing financing for more...
Staying at the table
“The general consensus is that there is no consensus and nothing will get done this year,” says Clifton Rodgers, senior vice president for The...
Government constraints could kill multifamily boom
Although regulators recently loosened Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s cap on multifamily purchases, it still acts as a potential constraint, along with the tightening...
Congress is working again
An overall uptick in activities on Capitol Hill means that work is also being done on issues important to the multifamily industry. NMHC’s political...
California offers energy efficiency financing for multifamily
In January, the state of California and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an initiative that would allow PACE financing to...
A house is not a credit card
Last summer, that same trump card stopped a bipartisan bill to reform the mortgage market, more than six years after Fannie Mae and Freddie...
Senate Bill 1217 makes first round, applauded by NMHC and NAA
The vote passed 13-9, which is one more vote than senators said they had during the first mark-up on April 29, when they decided...
Time to move
But the future of the government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs as they are more commonly called, is unlikely to be determined in 2014.
Given the...
