Tag: Fannie and Freddie

Willy Walker, Walker & Dunlop Chairman and CEO, commented, “It is a true honor to have been selected by Greystar to finance the largest...

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...

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....

“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...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each purchased more than $10 billion in multifamily loans in the first quarter of 2015, providing financing for more...

“The general consensus is that there is no consensus and nothing will get done this year,” says Clifton Rodgers, senior vice president for The...

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...

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...