The Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued the metrics on which it will assess the 2017 performance of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their jointly owned securitization platform, which will be implemented for the “Single Security” to be issued by both GSEs in 2018.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac today announced new foreclosure prevention programs designed to replace the Home Affordable Mortgage Program, which expires at the end of this year.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today issued a final rule requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to submit plans for improving the distribution and availability of safe and sound residential mortgage financing in underserved markets.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has successfully implemented Release 1 of its Common Securitization Platform, the agency announced today.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency today said that it will raise the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase in 2017 from $417,000 to $424,000.

U.S. home prices rose 0.6 percent in September and 1.5 percent in the third quarter, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s House Price Index released today.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps for multifamily lending will remain at $36.5 billion for 2017.

More than 626,000 borrowers refinanced their Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgage loans in the third quarter, with 15,597 refinanced through the Home Affordable Refinance Program, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said yesterday.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have sold 59,629 nonperforming loans as of August, with a total unpaid balance of $11.9 billion, according to the Non-Performing Loan Sales Report released by the Federal Housing Finance Agency today.

Farmer Mac today reported $131 million in net new business for the third quarter, generating a record outstanding business volume of $17.2 billion, $1.1 billion of which was new business.