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The good news from Freddie Mac’s Q1 2016 Financial Results: Freddie Mac will not need a draw on Treasury for the time being. Now the bad news: Freddie Mac reported a multi-million dollar net loss for the first quarter.

What areas out of a class of 24 single-family rental securitizations performed well in March?

The GSEs’ mortgage portfolios are being reduced at a rapid rate with the impending total loss of their capital buffer. What does this mean for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in terms of a financial bailout?

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are set to release its first quarter earnings statement this week, and after rough weeks of earnings so far, many in the industry are fearing the worst concerning the profitability of GSE. Is yet another taxpayer-funded bailout upon us?

Inconsistencies in the economy during the first quarter have not dampened Freddie Mac’s forecast for housing for the coming year. Freddie Mac has held fast to its prediction that 2016 will be the best year for housing since before the crisis. Why is the outlook for housing so rosy?

With many analysts early in the year having predicted a robust spring season for the housing market, the question remains as to whether or not that will come to pass as spring is in full swing.

While the outlook for overall economic growth is darkening, the housing market is expected to keep up its momentum in 2016, according to Freddie Mac’s April 2016 Economic ...

Per the direction of their conservator and regulator, the FHFA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were instructed not to conduct loan-level reviews for technical compliance with TRID when conducting their credit-risk transfer transactions.

JPMorgan Chase Bank has become the first institution to file a residential mortgage-backed securitizations deal that qualifies under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s six-year-old Safe Harbor rule.

With every proposal for GSE reform being shot down at every turn, the chances of change occurring remains slim but not impossible.