by Susanne Dwyer | Jan 16, 2021 | Latest News, National, News |
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) hosted some of the brightest minds in the housing finance world on Jan. 14 for a virtual event focused on fine-tuning the trade association’s ongoing proposal to transform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into mortgage...
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 10, 2020 | Latest News |
Freddie Mac recently released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey®, which showed that the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is averaging 2.86 percent—the lowest in survey history, which goes back to 1971. Here’s the breakdown: 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 31, 2018 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Home Spun Wisdom, Latest News, National, News |
(TNS)—Clearing the hurdles to qualify for a mortgage used to be much harder. House hunters with too much debt had their home-buying hopes dashed after being denied a mortgage. That’s changing as mortgage lenders ease lending guidelines to expand mortgage credit...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 7, 2018 | Latest News, National, News, Trending |
The LGBT community is largely holding back from homeownership, according to a recent survey conducted by Freddie Mac in collaboration with Community Marketing and Insights, which polled 2,313 LGBT community members in the U.S. aged 22-72. In fact, compared to the...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 7, 2018 | Latest News, National, News |
In a win for prospective homebuyers across the country, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Aug. 21, 2018 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) will end their single-family rental pilot programs. The FHFA found that the institutional,...