The firm blacklisted eight real estate players whose outstanding loan balance was about $700 million as of March 2024.

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The founder of the Detroit Blight Authority sees his nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency advance toward a confirmation vote.

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Metrics the influential government-related mortgage investor is adding appear to be in line with a broader move to examine the impact of serial loss mitigation.

The prospect of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac returning to the private sector would have substantial ripple effects on mortgage rates, bank liquidity and capital ratios.

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Trump could order the Treasury Department to start buying mortgage-backed securities, like when the Federal Reserve bought roughly $1.45 trillion of MBSs during the Great Recession. That was popularly known as quantitative easing. Buying MBS can reduce mortgage rates by increasing competition and increasing mortgage market liquidity.