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Inside The GSEs

December 2, 2022

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GSE Deliveries Continue to Slide in November

Fannie and Freddie combined to issue just $48.42 billion of single-family MBS in November, a 19.5% decrease from October. Year to date, volume was down 54.1%. (Includes two data charts.) Read More

Congress Pushes FHFA to Revise Capital Rules for FHLB Members

If the nation goes into recession, paper losses on Treasuries and MBS may deprive small community banks from accessing critical FHLBank advances. Read More

Mortgage Brokers Push for Removal of Cash-Out Fee

Mortgage brokers argue homeowners shouldn't have to pay fees to fund governmental policy initiatives. Read More

District Court Tosses Collins v. Yellen (For Good?)

A district court judge in Houston said the plaintiffs weren’t able to prove that they were harmed because President Trump was prevented from removing FHFA Director Mel Watt from office for two years. Read More

GSEs Set Stage for New Conforming Loan Limits

As of Jan. 1, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will for the first time be able to purchase one-unit single-family loans worth more than $1 million. Read More

Fannie Releases Cohort-Level Social Data

A new Fannie chartbook provides detailed cohort-level data on the socially oriented lending backed by the enterprise. Read More

Analysts Discuss TBA vs. Specified-Pool Pricing

Tight spreads in the money markets keep some liquidity in the to-be-announced market. Read More

Fannie Releases a Loan Defect Taxonomy for 2022

A table comprised of 13 categories and dozens of subcategories itemizes all the ways a mortgage loan can go bad. Read More

Fannie Wraps Up CRT for the Year

Fannie’s last CIRT transaction of 2022 covers $343 million in credit risk on $10.1 billion in single-family loans. Read More

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