Tag: Fannie and Freddie

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...

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...

Last summer, that same trump card stopped a bipartisan bill to reform the mortgage market, more than six years after Fannie Mae and Freddie...

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...

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...

And they plan on doing it through pressures in lending requirements. What comes of this partnership remains to be seen, but the goal is...

But several developments unfolding right now could make the next five or six months among the more consequential periods for housing-finance policy since the...

While the size of the cuts is still undetermined, they will add to a 10 percent reduction in apartment financing the Federal Housing Finance...

The commercial mortgage originator and servicer plans to expand its financing of offices, retail properties and hotels, said Hugh Frater, Berkadia's CEO. The bulk...

The holdings are significant-some $2.2 billion-making it not only the largest transfer of risk in a year, but as Deutsche Bank noted in a...

Could they provide a form of safe harbor or sanctuary for thousands of families who were displaced by financial difficulties from their previous homes...

Multifamily loans issued by government-sponsored agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are buoying the price of apartment buildings to the point that buyers may...

The mortgage buyers, now controlled by the government, and their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, are "facing challenging times," the agency's head Edward...

What is yet unclear is what will replace them. The GSEs are blamed in large part for the single-family finance bubble that led to the...

The mortgage giants currently require that projects they finance be no more than 25 percent commercial (20 percent for Fannie and for multifamily HUD...