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Following up on a suggestion from their joint regulator, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac establish a firm called Common Securitization Solutions (CSS) to craft a single mortgage security bond through a common securitization platform.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would relinquish their independent authorities as government-sponsored enterprises to issue mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and issue a single MBS backed by mortgages held in both firms’ portfolios under a proposal from their regulator.
A decision by Fannie Mae and its former auditor to settle a lawsuit filed by a group of Ohio pension funds could require taxpayers to pay Fannie’s share of the $153 million settlement. The agreement comes after nearly a decade of legal skirmishing over Fannie’s culpability in losses to the pension funds resulting from the firm’s manipulation of its earnings.
Federal Housing Finance Agency officials should monitor the salaries of top Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac senior professionals more closely to help improve the bottom limes of both government-sponsored enterprises, the FHFA inspector general tells Congress in a new report.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reach an accord with nine mortgage insurers to accelerate short sales and deed-in-lieu of foreclosures without seeking approval from the insurers. The move is initiated to allow homeowners to avoid foreclosure and preserve some of their credit rating.
An Oregon couple who bought a foreclosed house from Freddie Mac are out in the cold after discovering their home is poisoned by residues from methamphetamine manufacturing. The Freddie broker who sold the house was unaware of meth contamination and the buyers waived the right to a property inspection
Lingering economic issues likely will forestall any reform of government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until 2014 at the earliest. That’s the conclusion of economists and housing market experts at a housing summit sponsored by the American Forum and the
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 129,000 foreclosure preventions in the second quarter, bringing their year-to-date total to 275,100 modifications, the Federal Housing Finance Agency says.
A lawsuit accusing Freddie Mac of misleading shareholders by understating its subprime mortgage exposure ahead of the 2008 housing market collapse is again dismissed in federal court. U.S District Judge John Keenan dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit in March 2011 but gave shareholders a chance to amend their complaint.
Guarantee fees charged to lenders by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are headed for another increase if lawmakers decide to initiate a hike to help pay for tax cuts and thwart a sequestration of the federal budget next year. Congress approved an increase last year that
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