Freddie executed its first five-year K-deals since 2016 and its first single-asset single-borrower securities in two years.

Alberto Musalem, a director on the Freddie Mac board, will soon have a seat at the table of the Federal Open Market Committee.

Measured by profits per employee, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are among the most successful companies on the planet.

A mortgage application in which both members are male is 8.9% less likely to be approved than if the co-applicants were of different sexes, according to new research.

The rapid runoff at the Federal Reserve’s overnight repo operations could mean quantitative tightening will end sooner than expected.

Appraisers are supposed to adjust the value of comparable properties to account for home price appreciation. FHFA found that most either don’t make these time adjustments or make them too small.

Chris Bennett, a veteran MBS trader and founder of Vice Capital Markets, suggests looking to the five-year Treasury rate for current coupon mortgages.

A coalition including Climate Nexus, the American Lung Association, the Sierra Club and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy weighed in on GSE policy.

Industry veteran Chris Bennett explains why the five-year Treasury is the proper benchmark for current coupon MBS.

The Federal Reserve’s plan to reduce the size of its balance sheet by $100 billion a month may have been too ambitious. Last year, actual run-off was closer to $75 billion a month.