Changes to Common Securitization Solutions, including being renamed U.S. Financial Technology, appear to set the company up to serve additional secondary mortgage market participants.

Industry insiders push the National Directory of New Hires as an alternative to a current process involving the IRS as a way to verify income and employment while expanding the digitization of the mortgage process.

FHFA's director ordered Fannie and Freddie to develop proposals for including cryptocurrency in borrower reserves when underwriting mortgages.

The redesigned UAD 3.6 standard expands coverage to all property types.

Sales of new single-family homes declined by 13.7% on a monthly basis in May.

As the seven-plus-year redesign of the UAD and the URAR nears completion, the GSEs prepare industry stakeholders for the changes.

Republicans may hope to use any windfall the government gets from selling its stake in the GSEs to offset revenue cuts in their “Big Beautiful Bill,” but housing advocates have other ideas.

Fannie and Freddie both issued sellers guide updates alerting lenders to upcoming changes to UAD 3.6 and URAR. Other updates affect quality control procedures, measurement standards and attorney fees.

In a random sample of loans, Fannie found that undocumented rental income was the most common initial loan defect. Among loans more likely to have defects, “undisclosed liabilities” jumped to the top of the list.

In keeping with the rest of the Trump administration, FHFA has significantly reduced public visibility into its policy and actions since Bill Pulte took over as the agency’s director.