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

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

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

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 ...

Since 2012, almost all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s profits have gone to the Treasury, more than repaying the cost of the ...

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

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

The move their regulator Bill Pulte announced introduces competition for one metric but charges from three credit bureaus ...

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

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

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 two government-sponsored enterprises, each of which provides liquidity, stability, and affordability to the mortgage market.