Freddie Mac

FHFA: Loan Processing Flexibilities Authorized for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Customers

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced several loan processing flexibilities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (The Enterprises) designed to help their customers. The flexibilities announced by the Enterprises include: Allowing desktop appraisals on new construction loans;  Allowing flexibility on demonstrating construction has been completed (alternative to the Completion Report); Allowing flexibility for…

FHFA: Comment Period Extended on Proposed Minimum Financial Eligibility Requirements for Seller/Services

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced a 30-day extension to the comment period for the proposed update to the minimum financial eligibility requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Seller/Servicers.   FHFA released the proposed update to the minimum financial requirements in January to further strengthen the Enterprises’ Seller/Servicer requirements and provide transparency and…

FHFA: More Than 4.4 Million Homeowners Helped Since Conservatorship

 The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its fourth quarter 2019 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) completed 25,930 foreclosure prevention actions in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing to 4.407 million the number of troubled homeowners who have been helped during conservatorships.    The report also shows that nearly 40 percent…

FHFA: Enterprises Authorized to Support Additional Liquidity in the Secondary Mortgage Market

 Today, to help support immediate needs for liquidity in the secondary mortgage market, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has authorized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to enter into additional dollar roll transactions (dollar roll transactions provide mortgage-backed securities investors with short-term financing of their positions, providing liquidity to these investors). Eligible collateral…

FHFA: Enterprises Directed to Grant Flexibilities for Appraisal and Employment Verifications

Today, to facilitate liquidity in the mortgage market during the coronavirus national emergency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to provide alternative flexibilities to satisfy appraisal requirements and employment verification requirements through May 17, 2020.​   To allow for homes to be bought, sold, and refinanced as our…

FHFA: Foreclosures and Evictions Suspended for Enterprise-Backed Mortgages

Today, to help borrowers who are at risk of losing their home, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to suspend foreclosures and evictions for at least 60 days due to the coronavirus national emergency. The foreclosure and eviction suspension applies to homeowners with an Enterprise-backed single-family…

FHFA: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Publish Joint Enterprise Credit Score Solicitation

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced today that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) have published a Joint Credit Score Solicitation.      “The publication of the solicitation is the first step in the process of evaluating new credit score models,” said FHFA Director Mark Calabria.  “FHFA will ensure that the Enterprises validate and approve credit score…

FHFA: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Announce Update on LIBOR Transition

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today announced additional steps Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are taking as they transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the world’s most widely used interest rate benchmark:  New language will be required for single-family Uniform Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) instruments closed on or after June 1,…

FHFA: Updated Minimum Financial Eligibility Requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Seller/Servicers Proposed

 The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today proposed updated minimum financial eligibility requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Seller/Servicers.   The updated minimum financial requirements will further strengthen the Enterprises’ Seller/Servicer requirements and provide transparency and consistency of capital and liquidity required for Seller/Servicers with different business models.  A key improvement from the minimum financial…

FHFA: Nearly 4.4 Million Homeowners Helped Since Conservatorship

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its third quarter 2019 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) completed 26,475 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter of 2019, bringing the total number of foreclosure prevention actions to 4,381,036 since September 2008.   The report also shows that 37 percent of loan modifications…