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While becoming more popular in the past year as mortgage rates have increased, the differential is small between those that did and didn't pay points for a permanent buydown, Freddie Mac said.

A new "Social MBS" label will be applied to eligible single-family collateral from both government-sponsored enterprises based on a new mission index score.

The real estate markets where prices are expected to rise the most this year will see an average increase of 5.14%.

In the quarter, 80% of the homebuilder's mortgage customers used the rate buy-down incentive, the company said on a call with analysts.

Though the rate of growth for these conversions has slowed due to higher financing costs and long lead times associated with zoning and permitting, the trend is here to stay.

Money manager Brian Heywood has already spent nearly $7 million of his own money to get six ballot initiatives in front of Washington State voters this November, half of them tied directly to taxes.

Fannie Mae claims its pilot program, which the loan origination system is utilizing, has aided over 5,000 mortgage applicants in the past two years.

Its January forecast reverses the call first made in April 2022 that the U.S. economy would slip into an extended downturn.

The prepayment metric on the single-family issuer operational performance profile had been displaying outdated information.

The number of homeowners spending more than 30% of income on housing costs jumped 18% from pre-pandemic 2019, according to a new Harvard analysis.