Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government-backed companies that help with housing market affordability. They buy home loans from banks, bundle them into investments, and sell them to raise money.

President Donald Trump accused the Federal Reserve under Chairman Jerome Powell of "choking out the housing market" in his ...

A top housing finance regulator announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would allow lenders to use the traditional FICO ...

Freddie Mac has released its latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, showing that average mortgage rates inched higher this week. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) now stands at 6.75%, ...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row in another setback for the U.S. housing market, which is mired in a sales slump as affordability constraints shut out ...

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FHFA director refers Sen. Adam Schiff to DOJ for alleged mortgage fraud, citing documents on Maryland and California ...

While some sellers seem to be reacting to the shift toward a buyers market, stubbornly high mortgage rates aren’t making the ...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage rose for the second week in a row, another setback for the U.S. housing market, ...

Despite upticks in new-home mortgage applications and homebuilder sentiment, analysts worry that interest rates will continue ...

Seventeen years after the 2008 bailout, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain under federal conservatorship, with a future that’s ...