Abby Waltz, National Director for Homes for Heroes, explains how Florida’s new Hometown Heroes Housing Program is a small step in the right direction to assist frontline workers achieve the American dream of homeownership.
Read More »Fannie Mae Op-Ed: Making Rent Count
Cyndi Danko, SVP, Chief Credit Officer Single-Family at Fannie Mae, discusses how rent payment history is helping more people get a mortgage, including people of color.
Read More »Equitable Opportunities, the GSEs, and Gauging Success
Don Layton, former CEO of Freddie Mac and current Senior Industry Pellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, lays out four benchmarks against which to grade the GSEs as their plans are implemented.
Read More »New Home Sales Pick Up Strength in May
Sales of new single‐family homes in May rose to 696,000, a 10.7% month-over-month rise of April’s recorded total of 629,000.
Read More »May Housing Completions Jump 9.1% Month-Over-Month
Hitting the highest rate recorded in 15 years, housing completions rose in May, a sign that construction bottlenecks may be easing.
Read More »The Dawn of a New Reality in Condo, Co-op Lending
Orest Tomaselli of CondoTek explains how sweeping changes by the GSEs as a result of the Champlain Towers tragedy have altered how lenders evaluate borrowers seeking condo and co-op properties.
Read More »Fannie Mae Predicts Lower Home Sales, Originations in 2022-2023
“Tightening financial conditions are slowing economic activity, and consumers are drawing down savings and increasingly relying on credit cards as they seek to maintain current levels of consumption,” said Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan.
Read More »GSEs Affirm Commitment to Equitable Housing Access Nationwide
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's (the GSEs) Equitable Housing Finance Plans for 2022-2024. These plans were designed to complement the ...
Read More »Homebuyers Feeling Pressure of Higher Home Prices, Mortgage Rates
The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) remained comparatively flat in May —decreasing by only 0.3 points— but inching nearer its 10-year- and pandemic-low of 63.0 from ...
Read More »Sandra Thompson Officially Named Head of FHFA
U.S. Senate confirms Thompson to formally lead supervision, regulation, and oversight of the GSEs and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
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