Tag: Freddie Mac
FHFA announces $1.138 billion investment in housing trust fund and capital magnet fund
On February 28, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director Sandra L. Thompson announced that the Housing Trust Fund and Capital Magnet Fund will...
Freddie looks ahead to 2022
Freddie Mac has released its 2022 Multifamily Outlook report. It predicts that 2022 will be another strong year for multifamily rental housing, both from...
Apartment investment environment improves in Q4
Freddie Mac recently released its Apartment Market Investment Index (AIMI) for Q4 2020. The national index was up 0.5 percent in the quarter and...
Freddie Mac Multifamily to extend COVID-19 forbearance program
Freddie Mac has extended to March 31, 2021 the deadline for requesting a new or supplemental COVID-19 forbearance agreement for its Multifamily loans. The program...
Granny flats, garage apartments, in-law suites gaining in popularity
According to a new Freddie Mac national study, the growth of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in the United States has been dramatic, particularly in high-cost...
Freddie Mac launches new duty to serve mapping tool
Freddie Mac Multifamily unveiled a new mapping tool to help lenders identify investment opportunities in underserved markets throughout the country. The mapping tool, which...
Building a strong foundation for a housing recovery
The federal government, which now owns or guarantees some 37 million mortgages because of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailouts, is forced to...
Fannie and Freddie: cool heads prevail warn regulators
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...
Change in the air
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...
Home Builders urge Fannie, Freddie to get behind mixed-use
The mortgage giants currently require that projects they finance be no more than 25 percent commercial (20 percent for Fannie and for multifamily HUD...
U.S. regulator struggles to gain faulty mortgage data
Nothing has been heard from the regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, on 64 subpoenas it issued banks in July for detailed information on...
The new guy at Freddie Mac
First, Haldeman clarified what Freddie Mac's business is, and dispelled some common misconceptions. As a player in the secondary market, the company doesn't deal...
