After 17 years of conservatorship, it is clear the government is in charge of the mortgage giants, Edward J. Pinto and Stuart ...

On June 25, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two ...

Since 2012, almost all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s profits have gone to the Treasury, more than repaying the cost of the ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that it will immediately implement the acceptance of VantageScore 4 ...

Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping ...

Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac are now allowed to calculate rent history in the algorithm for determining credit history loan ...

Under the Trump administration, the conversation is no longer theoretical, with implications for buyers, sellers and homeowners impossible to ignore.

For more than sixteen years, the commercial real estate industry has waited for a resolution to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The question of when these government-sponsored ...

The move their regulator Bill Pulte announced introduces competition for one metric but charges from three credit bureaus ...

Both government-sponsored enterprises also are tightening rules around condo and co-op loans in buildings that have been ...

Leading up to the 2008 housing market crash, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pumped more money into the housing financing system and bought an outsized number of mortgage loans, which helped inflate ...

The head of the federal government agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wants the mortgage giants to consider accepting a homebuyer’s cryptocurrency holdings in their criteria for buying mo ...