Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research Group has adjusted its outlook for the U.S. housing market for the remainder of 2024, suggesting a modest deceleration in activity due to persistently high mortgage rates.Despite the forecasted slowdown, the group anticipates a slight uptick in housing starts, mortgage originations, and sales, depending on potential shifts in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy that could ease rates later in the year.The organization anticipates a slowdown in econom
Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities® (CAS) Series 2024-R04, an approximately $708 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae's fourth CAS REMIC® transaction of the year. CAS is Fannie Mae's benchmark issuance program designed to share credit risk on its single-family conventional guaranty book of business. Year to date, Fannie Mae has issued approximately $2.9 billion of notes under the CAS program.
Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today announced the winning bidder for its twenty-fourth Community Impact Pool (CIP) of non-performing loans. The transaction is expected to close on July 24, 2024, and includes 51 deeply delinquent loans totaling $14.3 million in unpaid principal balance (UPB). The loans are geographically focused in the New York area, and the winning bidder was GITSIT Solutions, LLC (Tourmalet). The pool was marketed with BofA Securities, Inc. and First Financial Network, Inc. as advis