Mon, May 3 2010, 2:21 PM
According to the Monthly Volume Summary issued by Freddie Mac, the mortgage related investment portfolio skyrocketed, increasing by an annualized rate...
Fri, Apr 23 2010, 9:54 AM
Freddie Mac announced on Thursday that servicers will soon be required to submit all requests for reimbursements through a web based system that will ...
Wed, Apr 14 2010, 10:42 AM
How FICO Scores Are Calculated; Chatter from the Trenches; JP Morgan Chase Earnings; Updates: Wells, Freddie, Provident, Citi, USB
Fri, Apr 2 2010, 10:36 AM
FDIC Finds Buyer for $491 Million in RMBS; Freddie Selling Foreclosed Homes; Flood Insurance Directives; Condo News
Thu, Apr 1 2010, 10:54 AM
Freddie Mac's February Volume Summary, released on Thursday, shows that the value of both the corporations total portfolio and its investments portfol...
Wed, Mar 24 2010, 9:53 AM
New FHA Compliance Manager; Long Road of Housing Reform Ahead; Short Sale Primer; PMI Freddie Mac Approved; FHA Delinquencies, Broker Pricing Opinions...
Fri, Mar 12 2010, 10:43 AM
If you want to sell Freddie Mac an interest only loan, the application must be dated prior to June 13, 2010 and you better get LP approval before then...
Fri, Mar 12 2010, 9:42 AM
Loan Officers Who Sell Real Estate; Wells Expands Market Making in Mortgage-Backeds; FDIC Acts on a Thursday; Freddie Mac Bulletin
Wed, Mar 3 2010, 3:48 PM
Freddie Mac's Monthly Volume Summary shows that loan delinquencies continue to mount and now represent 4.04 percent of its total loans. At the same t...
Fri, Feb 26 2010, 11:53 AM
Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that on or about September 1, 2010, the company will cease purchasing and securitizing interest only mortgages...
Thu, Feb 25 2010, 10:45 AM
Stories from the Street; Loan Apps Continue to Slow; Commercial Default Rates; Freddie's Results, Updates from Wells and US Bank
Thu, Feb 25 2010, 2:41 PM
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have released data on average interest rates over the most recent week. Both reported an increase in long term and fixed r...
Wed, Feb 24 2010, 3:22 PM
Freddie Mac release fourth quarter and 2009 year end financial reports today. Losses for the year were less than half that registered one year earlie...
Wed, Feb 10 2010, 2:43 PM
Freddie Mac announced they would purchase $71.2 billion 120+ day in loans. This confirms fears that MBS investors should be expecting an increase in i...
Thu, Feb 4 2010, 1:03 PM
Mortgage rates rose slightly during the past week according to information released today by both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Only the one-year ARM re...
Fri, Jan 29 2010, 10:06 AM
Freddie's condo guidelines; AVM's & mortgage banking; jawboning on the end of the mortgage purchase program
Wed, Jan 27 2010, 2:14 PM
Eliminating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Overaggressive Bank Examiners; Rewriting California's Constitution
Fri, Jan 15 2010, 9:34 AM
Fixed rates were lower for the second week in a row while adjustable rates were mixed according to Freddie Mac's weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey...
Thu, Dec 17 2009, 4:01 PM
Interest rates as reported by both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae increased during the week recently ended. A Freddie Mac spokesman attributed the increa...
Wed, Dec 16 2009, 10:00 AM
SAFE Act Update; Down Payment Assistance; Fannie & Freddie in the Future; Yield Curve Chatter
Fri, Dec 11 2009, 1:53 PM
A weaker bond market moved most mortgage loan rates higher for the week. With the exception of the longer term fixed rate mortgages, most of the inc...
Thu, Dec 10 2009, 9:53 AM
Projected Fed Funds Rates; Mortgage Companies Expanding; News from BofA, GMAC, Freddie, USB, Flagstar
Mon, Dec 7 2009, 9:46 AM
AmTrust stops taking locks; news from Freddie & SunTrust; rates quiet
Tue, Nov 24 2009, 2:31 PM
Freddie Mac released its October activity report Tuesday morning. The total portfolio increased by 0.7 percent - the third month in a row that the po...
Thu, Nov 19 2009, 1:00 PM
Almost all short and long term mortgage interest rates fell during the most recent week with the 15-year FRM reported by Freddie Mac hitting an all-ti...
Fri, Nov 13 2009, 8:53 AM
Freddie's '10 loan limits; news from SunTrust, AgFirst, CMBA, TBI, Flagstar, USBHM
Thu, Nov 12 2009, 2:01 PM
Mortgages continued to hold firm with average rates below 5 percent for both long and short term loans. The 30-year FRM has now been below 5 percent ...
Mon, Nov 9 2009, 10:08 AM
Tax credit extension; results from Freddie & PennyMac; HPML test; S.A.F.E. forms
Fri, Nov 6 2009, 9:43 AM
Lots of news from North Carolina, Fannie, Freddie, PMI, AIG, the tax credit; rates head lower after unemployment data
Thu, Nov 5 2009, 2:02 PM
Both long and short term interest rates declined during the week ended November 5 according to data released by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. All rates...
Tue, Nov 3 2009, 9:55 AM
A primer on MI rescission; news from Wells, Flagstar, Freddie, PMI, FAMC; rates moving lower
Fri, Oct 30 2009, 9:34 AM
Loan limit & tax credit updates; USB, Flagstar, Freddie, and GMAC news; Treasury purchase program ends
Thu, Oct 29 2009, 2:59 PM
Mortgage rates for the last week have remained relatively unchanged according to information released by Freddie Mac from its weekly Primary Mortgage ...
Fri, Oct 23 2009, 4:44 PM
Freddie Mac released their activity summary today. This data reports on monthly and year-to-date activity for Freddie Mac's Total Mortgage, Retained a...
Thu, Oct 15 2009, 3:37 PM
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended October 15 was released on Thursday. The report showed all four mortgages tracked by ...
Mon, Oct 12 2009, 9:06 AM
October 12: News from BofA, Freddie, Flagstar; markets are like rubber bands, remember?
Fri, Oct 9 2009, 1:38 PM
Speaking of time flying, loan modifications, which seem to have more of an impact on the larger investors than on the smaller brokers, have come a lon...
Tue, Oct 6 2009, 1:28 PM
“Keep skunks and bankers at a distance” so the old saying goes. Mortgage bankers may have to ignore that saying, however, given some National Mortgage...
Thu, Oct 1 2009, 3:20 PM
Mortgage interest rates are flirting with record low territory again according to the results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The su...
Mon, Sep 28 2009, 5:48 PM
Out here in California, some in the business have been following the case of 28-yr old Garret Gililland III. Originally from the Sacramento area, he w...
Thu, Sep 17 2009, 1:19 PM
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended September 17 reported the third consecutive week of lower rates for fixed rate mortgag...
Thu, Sep 10 2009, 1:04 PM
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reported that average interest rates edged down during the most recent weeks for which data is available.
Accordi...
Thu, Sep 3 2009, 4:57 PM
According to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended September 3, most mortgage rates declined from the week before. Fannie M...
Thu, Aug 20 2009, 2:57 PM
Mortgage rates dropped significantly during the week ending August 20 according to the results of the Primary Mortgage Market Survey released this mor...
Thu, Aug 13 2009, 4:45 PM
Good news on the jobs' front led to an increase in most mortgage rates for the week ended August 13 according to the latest Freddie Mac’s Primary Mort...
Thu, Aug 6 2009, 1:53 PM
After two weeks of modest increases, mortgage rates drifted down during the week ended August 6 according to results of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage...
Thu, Aug 6 2009, 1:38 PM
The White House today responded to recent questions raised, among other places, by an article in today's Washington Post, about the potential phasing...
Thu, Jul 23 2009, 12:34 PM
Home buyers and refinancers waiting and hoping for a return of record low rates suffered a setback this week as fixed rates reversed a three-week down...
Thu, Jul 16 2009, 4:09 PM
According to Freddie Mac's weekly survey, mortgage rates drifted down for the third consecutive week although they remain well above the record lows e...
Thu, Jul 9 2009, 12:00 PM
Mortgage interest rates dropped again this week according to the results of Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended July 9.
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