Freddie Mac’s latest summary report reveals an increase in both its total mortgage portfolio and its mortgage-related securities. Its mortgage portfolio rose 0.5 percent over the year, while its mortgage-related securities and guarantees jumped by 2.1 percent. The government-sponsored enterprise has funded $127 billion mortgages year-to-date.
Read More »Freddie Mac’s Mortgage Portfolio Sees More Contraction
The unpaid balance of the GSE's mortgage-related investments portfolio is now well below its required call for the full year of 2016.
Read More »Freddie Mac Exceeds Portfolio Reduction Goal
How much did Freddie Mac reduce its mortgage-related investments portfolio during April?
Read More »Now Below 2016 Cap, Fannie Mae Portfolio Shrinks Further
The value of Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio fell below its cap for 2016 in March; how much further did it contract in April?
Read More »Digging Deeper into GSE Mortgage Portfolios
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?
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Wind Down Continues
Fannie Mae’s gross mortgage portfolio resumed its contraction in February following a rare month of expansion in January, according to the GSE’s Monthly Volume Summary for February 2016.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Contracts for Eighth Straight Month
Fannie Mae’s gross mortgage portfolio experienced its largest compound annual rate of contraction for one month so far in 2015
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Contracts for 7th Consecutive Month
Fannie Mae’s gross mortgage portfolio continued its rapid contraction in October by expanding for the seventh consecutive month in October and the eighth time in 10 months year-to-date in 2015, according to Fannie Mae's October 2015 Monthly Volume Summary.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Decreases While Delinquency Drops to 1.73 Percent
Fannie Mae’s gross mortgage portfolio has decreased for the second consecutive month at a compound annualized rate of 17.4 percent in April, according to Fannie Mae’s April 2015 Monthly Volume Summary, released today. The GSE’s book of business decreased in April, dropping at a compound annualized rate of 2.1 percent, from $3.13 trillion in April 2014 to $3.11 trillion in April 2015, according to the summary. The book of business has only seen one positive compounded growth rate increase of 0.4 percent this year in March.
Read More »Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Portfolio Declines 14.5 Percent
Fannie Mae's total Book of Business, which includes the gross mortgage portfolio plus the total Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees less the Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities in the portfolio, decreased at a compound annualized rate of 0.1 percent in February, down to $3.1214 trillion. It was the second consecutive month of contraction for Fannie Mae's Book of Business after expanding for three out of four months between September and December.
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