At Freddie Mac alone, 62 sellers topped the $1.5 billion marker for cash sales in 2020.

Freddie Mac posted a $7.3 billion profit in 2020, including net income of $2.9 billion in the fourth quarter.

Mortgage applications fell by 4%, with declines in requests for both refinances and purchase mortgages.

Mortgage-backed security issuance by the GSEs offers one metric to feed into the crystal ball.

Coronavirus-related forbearance on mortgages serviced for the GSEs can extend three months past the initial 12-month deadline, according to the FHFA.

Rather than ending the net worth sweep outright and agreeing to write off some of its preferred shares, Treasury is essentially simply allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to continue their practice of retaining earnings.

It's good timing for former Fannie executive Andrew Bon Salle. Home Point is about to go public.

On the rural housing front, Freddie expects to increase its SFI purchase target from 3,600 to 3,900 loans in 2020 to as much as 4,800 units this year...

Questions posed by the FHFA include whether the GSEs should use appraisal waivers and how lenders might manipulate automated underwriting systems when seeking an appraisal wavier from the GSEs.

Mark Calabria: “Requiring the enterprises to develop living wills helps FHFA fulfill its responsibility to ensure that the failure of an enterprise would harm neither taxpayers nor the mortgage market.”