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5 Apr 2009, 1:26 pm
In September 2008, the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was followed by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the acquisition of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America and an $85 billion (and now $170 billion) government investment in American International Group. [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 2:33 pm
The obvious solution is to restore, at least temporarily and possibly permanently, the business of low-end mortgage finance, refinance, financial counseling, and mortgage securitization to those still existing agencies which made low-end mortgages possible in the first place, then handled the bulk of them for decades: I refer to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), working in tandem with its originally government-sponsored and recently… [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 6:31 am
The chapter also considers the receiverships of AIG and government-sponsored enterprises (principally Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), the engineering-assisted transactions (including JP Morgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns and Bank of America’s purchase of Merrill Lynch), as well as other measures adopted to stabilize troubled financial institutions. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 3:56 am
She has extensive experience in Federal, state and local government finance programs for the construction, refinancing and restructuring of multifamily rental housing, involving tax-exempt bond financing, low-income housing tax credit syndication, secondary mortgage market securitized transactions involving Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities, FHA multifamily mortgage insurance, Section 236 ”decoupling” transactions, HOPE… [read post]
11 May 2018, 7:22 am
ZZZZ Best became a national story, and young Minkow became a celebrity. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 9:51 am
Federal government corporations in particular — such as Amtrak and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) — are largely commercial in nature, often self-financing, and assumed to be amenable to lawsuits in much the same way that a private enterprise would be. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 12:34 pm
It was concerning since Freddie Mac, together with Fannie Mae, held or guaranteed nearly half of the country’s mortgages. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 3:11 am
If SB 1451 were to become state law, Arizona’s homeowners would no longer be dependent on the federal government, through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or FHA, to refinance their mortgages. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 1:25 am
As of June 30, 2010, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that 4.57% of 1-4 family residential mortgage loans (roughly 2.5 million loans) were currently in the foreclosure, process a rate more than quadruple historical averages. [read post]
25 May 2011, 4:46 pm
”) And today, the only mortgage lending in this country comes from the federal government… Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the FHA. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 3:32 pm
“Weighted average FICO scores for conventional loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac eased a bit in this year’s second quarter, declining to 755, but remain well above historic norms, the realty group said. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 7:00 am
That’s not unreasonable in its own right – there are legitimate fears of developer-controlled governance, or undercapitalized condo associations – but there are unintended consequences, particularly as the federal government (FHA, along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) is currently providing liquidity for roughly 90% of all mortgages: “That’s a Catch-22 for a seller,” Scott Burman, a developer and a… [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 5:51 am
In this country, we’ve got Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac doing the same thing to American homeowners with their refusal to write down loan balances under any circumstances. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:50 pm
The Federal National Mortgage Association is today’s Fannie Mae, and it was originally established in 1938 as part of FDR’s New Deal. [read post]
24 May 2011, 2:33 am
And the AVERAGE credit score for a Fannie Mae loan for the last two years is 769… yes, that’s AVERAGE. [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 8:11 am
They knew they were breaking all sorts of state and federal laws. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 12:53 pm
Late last year, the federal banking agencies began a targeted review of loan servicing practices at large financial institutions that had significant market concentrations in mortgage servicing. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 7:47 pm
I remember wondering, to begin with, how in the world such a story had become the subject of a national news magazine television program. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 5:29 am
 I’ll get back to the point of the story… So now, ex-Fannie Mae Chief Credit Officer Edward Pinto has come out attacking Treasury’s claim that 500,000 homeowners have entered the HAMP loan modification program. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 9:21 am
Here’s an excerpt from the Globe: The issue…in 2003 was whether mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fiscally strong. [read post]
