Freddie Mac News Release Archive

Home Price Appreciation: Winners and Losers MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/22/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released its monthly Outlook for March, which looks at how increasing home prices are helping many current homeowners build equity, while making it more difficult for many... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/22/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS ® ), showing little change to mortgage rates after falling for the first time in 2018 last week. News Facts 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.45... More

Credit-risk transferred on over $950 billion in single-family mortgages MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/20/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today priced two credit risk transfer offerings as part of the Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR®) series, Freddie Mac's flagship credit risk transfer... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/20/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced today the next stage of its initiative with LoanBeam: simplifying and automating the process for calculating income for a self-employed borrower when underwriting a mortgage through Freddie Mac's automated underwriting... More

Paper Charts Growth Trajectory of LIHTC Rents vs. Market Rate MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/20/18 -- A new analysis by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) has concluded that over the last five years, individuals living in apartments with rents restricted through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/19/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today announced it sold via auction 2,150 deeply delinquent non-performing loans (NPLs) from its mortgage investments portfolio. The loans, totaling $341 million , are currently serviced by New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Shellpoint... More

Why is Adulting Getting Harder? Young Adults and Household Formation MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/16/18 -- - Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) released its March Insight , which compares today's young adults to previous generations and considers how various factors influence the rate of household... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/16/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announces the pricing of the SB47 offering, a multifamily mortgage-backed securitization backed by small balance loans underwritten by Freddie Mac and issued by a third-party trust. The company expects to guarantee approximately... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/15/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS ® ), showing the 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropping after nine consecutive weeks of increases. News Facts 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.44... More

MCLEAN, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 03/14/18 -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) recently priced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates ( K Certificates ) backed by floating-rate multifamily mortgages with seven-year terms. The approximately $1.3 billion in K Certificates (K-F44 Certificates)... More