Home loan applications continue downward dip as mortgage rates hover near 7%, leaving more homes listed for sale.

Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the ranking member of the Banking Committee, called on the Trump ...

Trump appears to be pushing forward with a plan to publicly list shares of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

Fannie and Freddie’s job as private companies was to buy, insure and repackage mortgages, blessing them on the way with its ...

Trump’s idea to take the mortgage giants public has triggered a debate about the risks and potential benefits.

When the Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates in September, most economists anticipated a corresponding drop in ...

The capital structures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a little complicated, but here’s roughly the situation 1: The ...

The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...

Fannie and Freddie "buy and package home loans" into mortgage-backed securities that get sold to investors. Currently, those ...

Trump recently vowed to relist the government’s shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally-backed agencies that purchase ...

Signs are emerging that the Trump administration may be less willing to give up control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

Fannie Mae (1938) and Freddie Mac (1970) were created with the end goal of promoting homeownership across the United States.