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Fannie Mae expects 30-year rates to fall to 6.30% by the end of 2025. But because there's so much uncertainty in the economy right now, that forecast could change.
Fannie Mae now projects lower mortgage rates and increased volume for this year and next, raising its home sales expectations from June. By contrast, the Mortgage Bankers Association cut its ...
Rising odds of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being re-privatized have sent shares of the firms soaring. But a move to release them from government control could damage the mortgage market, Pimco warned.
Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) in its latest housing outlook report upwardly revised the 2025 U.S. single-family home sales estimate amid expectations of lower mortgage rates and higher GDP growth.
Rates for home loans pressed higher, as Washington policies continue to stifle housing market activity. In the week ending May 22, 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.86%, Freddie Mac ...
Mortgage rates ticked up again on Thursday, driven by rising 10-year Treasury yields after President Donald Trump advocated for listing the government-backed Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae on a major ...
List prices have soared above $400,000 on a national average and mortgage rates have been around 7%, squeezing budgets and pushing some prospective buyers out of the market entirely.
Investors' willingness to buy the bonds — mortgage bonds are a more than $10 trillion market — helps keep Fannie and Freddie’s borrowing costs, and by association, 30-year mortgage rates, low.
Fannie Mae, short for the Federal National Mortgage Association, was founded in 1938 under the National Housing Act. It is one of the main reasons mortgages are plentiful for real estate investors ...
The Fannie Mae headquarters building is seen on April 21, 2018, in Washington. FHFA urged Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to consider cryptocurrencies as qualifying assets in mortgage risk assessments.