GSEs

Fannie Mae has unveiled a mortgage for borrowers who want to finance energy and water efficiency improvements to their homes.

Freddie Mac has obtained new insurance policies under its Agency Credit Insurance Structure program.

Bankers are fighting back against a plan that would allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest in low-income housing tax credits, arguing they are critical for meeting Community Reinvestment Act requirements.

Fewer lenders eased their credit standards over the previous three months, according to Fannie Mae's Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey for the first quarter.

Five policy heavy-hitters issued a proposal this week to merge Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single government corporation as a way to move beyond the conservatorships of the two government-sponsored enterprises.

Freddie Mac has sold $1.4 billion in deeply delinquent, nonperforming loans.

Two senior GOP lawmakers are warning regulators against preferential treatment for housing advocates and nonprofits in sales of nonperforming, government-guaranteed mortgages.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages lowered for the first time in four weeks, Freddie Mac reported.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency appears poised finally to allow principal reductions, but it's been nearly a decade since the mortgage crisis and underwater borrowers are much fewer thanks to higher home values.

The agency may finally be reaching resolution on whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will allow principal reductions, two years into Director Mel Watt's tenure as agency director and nearly a decade after the mortgage bubble burst.

Fannie Mae is marketing its second offering of the year of Connecticut Avenue Securities transferring the credit risk on mortgages that it insures.

Home prices rose in January as shoppers competed for a limited inventory of listings.

A $6.2 billion, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bulk portfolio of mortgage servicing rights has gone up for auction, with final bids due March 29.

The Manufactured Housing Institute is calling on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to push the government-sponsored enterprises to purchase chattel loans.

Fixed-rate mortgage rates rose for the third straight week, in part due to higher inflation, Freddie Mac reported.

While the $1.9 billion of bonds are not guaranteed by the government, most of the underlying loans could have been sold to Fannie and Freddie, and the transaction accomplishes the same thing as the GSEs' risk-transfer deals.

Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

JPMorgan Chase is preparing one of the largest private-label mortgage securitizations since the financial crisis.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gave $186 million to the National Housing Trust Fund, their first such contributions to a fund designed to provide construction and rehabilitation of rental housing for low-income families.

Interest rates on fixed-rate mortgages rose for the second straight week, according to Freddie Mac.