Freddie Mac

In a case with ramifications for the so-called administrative state, the Supreme Court considered Dec. 9 whether the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is unconstitutional because Congress forbids ...

Commentary Today, two key pieces of data were released. One will be reported correctly, and for the other, ...

Commentary The cost of refinancing a mortgage is about to go up. Those considering refinancing their home mortgages ...

A survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association released Monday shows that almost 7 percent of U.S. mortgage holders—or around ...

Commentary Some of the Democratic candidates for president support studying reparations to blacks to compensate for slavery. But ...

WASHINGTON—Top federal officials defended the Trump administration’s plan to end federal control of the financially recovering but once ...

In North Carolina, tornados spun off Hurricane Dorian, causing damage; The Treasury Department in a report suggested restructuring ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-backed housing corporations bailed out seven years ago by federal taxpayers, ...

WASHINGTON—The number of Americans signing contracts to buy homes rose modestly in November as a strengthening economy helped ...

A sudden plunge in mortgage rates this week raised an urgent question for millions of Americans: Should I ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Aug. 17 that ...

The average 30-year mortgage rate rose slightly, according to mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac, but remains at historically ...

The macroeconomic trends in the national real estate market are making it a real buyers’ market.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is deeply insolvent and headed toward a financial crash like that of Freddie ...

Robert Khuzami, director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Enforcement Division, announces that the SEC has ...

China may suffer large losses of its Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bond holdings.

Mortgage rates continued their downward slide, as the 5-year, 15-year, and 30-year mortgage rates all fell to record ...

Mortgage rates were little changed this week, with 30-year fixed rate mortages (FRM) averaging 4.37 percent and the ...

The future of two mortgage finance behemoths—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are increasingly in doubt as experts debate whether ...

A key industry association urged Congress to break up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into smaller, privately held ...

News of IndyMac Bancorp.'s collapse has spawned similar worries that more regional banks may bite the dust.