The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Freddie Mac, is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that buys mortgages, pools them, and sells them as a mortgage-backed security ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been under a conservatorship with the Federal Housing Finance Agency since 2008. The mortgage giants could be released into the private sector, meaning the ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac help keep the mortgage market stable by buying home loans, selling mortgage-backed securities and establishing lending guidelines. The Trump administration wants to turn ...

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) — Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year mortgage edged up to 6.65% this week, ending a seven-week slide.

Freddie Mac recorded a net income of $3.2 billion for Q4 2024 and $11.9 billion for the full year 2024, it reported this morning. The full-year net income figure marked an increase of 13% from 2023.

The administration will likely attempt to unshackle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage guarantors, from their current position as wards of the state, analysts believe and Scott Turner ...

Advisors to this transaction are Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and BofA Securities, Inc., as co-lead managers and joint bookrunners, and Nomura Securities International, Inc., Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., ...

Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year mortgage edged up to 6.65% this week, ending a seven-week slide.