Effective immediately, Fannie and Freddie will allow mortgage lenders to use VantageScore credit ratings to assess ...

The regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has decided to allow mortgage lenders to use an alternative credit score for ...

VantageScore President and CEO Silvio Tavares joins ‘The Claman Countdown’ to discuss the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s decision to allow VantageScore 4.0 for mortgages sold to Fannie Mae and ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and National Economics Council Director Kevin Hassett have emerged as possible contenders to ...

On June 25, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William J. Pulte ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two ...

Mortgage lenders working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can now choose to use Vantage Score 4.0, while still keeping ...

A cloud of uncertainty has hovered over the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first half of 2025. The Trump ...

After 17 years of conservatorship, it is clear the government is in charge of the mortgage giants, Edward J. Pinto and Stuart ...

Under the Trump administration, the conversation is no longer theoretical, with implications for buyers, sellers and homeowners impossible to ignore.

Leading up to the 2008 housing market crash, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pumped more money into the housing financing system and bought an outsized number of mortgage loans, which helped inflate ...

"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are doing very well, throwing off a lot of CASH, and the time would seem to be right," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social late Wednesday — prompting a double-digit rally ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pumped more and more money into the U.S. home finance system in the years leading up to the financial crisis, buying an outsized number of mortgages on the secondary market.