Freddie Mac plans to dip its toes into the single-family rental market in the near future, but don’t expect its deal to mirror Fannie Mae’s. The GSE differentiates its single-family rental plan by focusing on the affordable segment of the rental home market. But, with no deal to announce yet, Freddie is still in the exploratory phase. A spokesman for Freddie told Inside The GSEs that the Federal Housing Finance Agency has authorized the GSEs to explore single-family rental transactions on a very limited basis. He said this was done to “help better understand the challenges and opportunities in this growing segment of the rental market.”