Freddie Mac News Release Archive

SHARP Awards Recognize Top Performance for Mortgage Servicers   MCLEAN, Va. (Feb. 25, 2020) – Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today the nine winners of its 2019 Servicer Honors and Rewards Program ( SHARP )SM, which annually recognizes mortgage loan Servicers for superior servicing portfolio... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced that Mark B. Grier has been elected to its Board of Directors effective February 18, 2020. Grier served as Vice Chairman and a Member of the Board of Directors of Prudential Financial, Inc.... More

Company elevates chief risk officer with 25 years of experience MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today that Donna Corley has been named executive vice president and head of the company’s Single-Family business.... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ®  (PMMS ® ), showing that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.49 percent. “The low mortgage rate environment continues to spur homebuying activity,... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today announced its first Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction (SLST) offering of 2020—a securitization backed by a pool of approximately $1.1 billion seasoned re-performing loans (RPLs).... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) recently priced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates ( K Certificates ) that are backed by underlying collateral consisting of supplemental multifamily mortgages.... More

Over $9 Billion in Credit Risk Transferred for the Year MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac ’s Single-Family business today announced that its Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) program transferred $9.1 billion of credit risk on $231 billion of single-family mortgages from U.S.... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announces the pricing of the SB71 offering, a multifamily mortgage-backed securitization backed by small balance loans underwritten by Freddie Mac and issued by a third-party trust.... More

McLEAN, Va., Feb. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today that it priced its new 1.5% five-year USD Reference Notes ® security due on February 12, 2025. The issue, CUSIP number 3137EAEP0, was priced at 99.923 to yield 1.516%, 8 basis points more than the yield on... More

MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey ®  (PMMS ® ), showing that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 3.47 percent. “With mortgage rates hovering near a five-decade low, refinance... More