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Senators call on FHFA’s Bill Pulte to pause GSE privatization plans

Bill Pulte, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, FHFA, GSE Reform, HWmember, Mortgage, Politics, Trump administration / Ricky Vasquez

A group of 14 Democratic senators, led by Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), have called on Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte to pause any potential plans to release government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship. The letter, first reported by Bloomberg, said that any potential […]

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GSEs could go public while staying under government control

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The Trump administration has studied the possibility of turning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into public companies while keeping them under conservatorship — one of several alternatives still under consideration, according to a Bloomberg report published Tuesday. The primary goal of the administration is to reduce the U.S. budget deficit and avoid any increase in

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Nevada lawmaker targets home purchases by institutional investors

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Citing an issue in which families across Nevada do not have the resources to compete with institutional investors that buy up single-family homes, Rep. Susie Lee (D) has called on Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte to offer transparency when out-of-state landlords purchase foreclosed single-family homes. Lee, who represents part of Las Vegas

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Mat Ishbia: GSEs acting ‘private’ in conservatorship could be best of both worlds

Bill Pulte, Donald Trump, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, HWmember, LendingLife, Mat Ishbia, Mortgage, Regulatory, Trump administration, United Wholesale Mortgage / Ricky Vasquez

Mat Ishbia, the president and CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), said last week he doesn’t think that releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship is a major focus for the Trump administration — and he isn’t sure “whether it should be.” One thing he is confident about: If ending the conservatorship results in

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Updated list of Bill Pulte’s actions that impact FHFA, GSEs

Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae, FHFA, Freddie Mac, GSE Reform, GSEs, HWmember, Mortgage, Regulatory, Trump administration / Ricky Vasquez

Below is a timeline of the actions or reports related to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte that have impacted the regulator or the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since Pulte was announced as President Donald Trump’s nominee for the role in January and took office in March. January/February Trump

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How Bill Pulte has reshaped FHFA and the GSEs

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A key decision maker in the federal housing apparatus, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) oversees the regulator of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and the Federal Home Loan Banks. But Bill Pulte has been anything but a conventional FHFA director (pardon the term, since we’re not talking about conforming loan limits just

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What implicit guarantee means for rates on GSEs’ release

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Will mortgage rates go higher if the government takes the GSEs out of conservatorship? Many people would say yes if there were no government backing of these two giants, but on Tuesday evening the calculus changed. In a social media post on Tuesday, President Trump expressed his intention to transition the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) out

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FHFA Director Pulte calls on Powell to lower interest rates

Bill Pulte, Federal Reserve, FHFA, Housing Market, HWmember, Jerome Powell, Mortgage Rates, Politics, Scott Bessent / Ricky Vasquez

On Monday, FHFA Director Bill Pulte called on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates. His exact tweet was: “Jay Powell needs to lower interest rates – enough is enough. President Trump has crushed Biden’s inflation, and there is no reason not to lower rates. The housing market would be in much better

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Trump says he’s giving “serious consideration” to releasing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Bill Pulte, Conservatorship, Donald Trump, FHFA, GSE Reform, GSEs, HWmember, Mortgage, Politics, Regulatory / Ricky Vasquez

Two days after Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte said any decision over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exiting government conservatorship would be up to President Trump and Trump alone, the president has weighed in. In a message posted on Truth Social Wednesday night, Trump said “I am giving serious consideration to bringing

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Bill Pulte is putting ‘obese’ Fannie and Freddie ‘on the treadmill’

Bill Pulte, Conservatorship, FHFA, HWmember, Mortgage, Politics / Ricky Vasquez

It won’t be Federal Housing Finance Administration (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte or Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent making the decision about removing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship. That’s entirely up to President Trump, Pulte told Mortgage Bankers Association Chair Laura Escobar in a freewheeling conversation at the MBA Secondary Mortgage Marketing conference in New

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Senators call on FHFA’s Bill Pulte to pause GSE privatization plans

GSEs could go public while staying under government control

Nevada lawmaker targets home purchases by institutional investors

Mat Ishbia: GSEs acting ‘private’ in conservatorship could be best of both worlds

Updated list of Bill Pulte’s actions that impact FHFA, GSEs

How Bill Pulte has reshaped FHFA and the GSEs

What implicit guarantee means for rates on GSEs’ release

FHFA Director Pulte calls on Powell to lower interest rates

Trump says he’s giving “serious consideration” to releasing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Bill Pulte is putting ‘obese’ Fannie and Freddie ‘on the treadmill’

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