Rising Treasury yields have prompted investors in mortgage-backed securities to adjust interest-rate hedges, potentially adding to bond-market selling pressure and complicating the outlook for mortgage rates.A Reuters analysis published October 12 described how higher...
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte accommodated President Trump’s announcement of a federal purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds by making a unilateral and unpublicized policy change that enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise the...
A pair of unexpected housing policy proposals, an unfair accusation against a hotel chain, and an unlikely new theme park. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Jan. 5-9. Hit: Who Saw That Coming? The biggest...
President Trump announced he is directing his “representatives” to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds as a strategy for driving down mortgage rates. In a posting on Truth Social, Trump blamed former President Biden for ignoring the housing market and...