In his latest remarks on mortgage principal forgiveness, the regulator over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said today that such a strategy was not about a “huge difference-making program” that would rescue the housing ...

The regulator over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will decide this month if the two taxpayer-subsidized mortgage financing companies will embrace mortgage write-downs as part of the Obama’s Administration’s ...

Despite statistics and analysis that show otherwise, more Americans expect home purchase prices to increase over the next year, according to Fannie Mae’s March housing survey. Nearly half of consumers expect higher ...

The U.S. housing chief said there is a “compelling” case for the regulator over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to allow principal write-downs for “underwater” homeowners on mortgages they own. Mortgage write-downs ...

Applications for conventional loans – any mortgage which is not guaranteed or insured by the federal government – are running 10 percent above levels one year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. However, ...

Expect 30-year fixed-rate mortgages to gradually increase this year to about 4.5 percent, while new rental construction for 2012 is likely to surge to levels not seen since 2005. These are two of Freddie Mac’s ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two taxpayer-subsidized mortgage companies, spent $600,000 to attend a convention in Chicago last year, and nearly half of that amount “was of questionable value,” according to ...

The U.S. Treasury said it completed the sale of the mortgage-backed securities portfolio it acquired at the height of the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 – and netted a profit of $25 billion for taxpayers. The ...

Top executives at taxpayer-funded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have their total compensation reduced by nearly 75 percent since the mortgage financing firms were taken over by the government in September 2008. The ...

Taxpayer-subsidized Freddie Mac reported a net income of $619 million for the fourth quarter 2011, compared to a net loss of $4.4 billion in the previous quarter. But Freddie Mac’s recorded a net worth deficit ...