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The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
Freddie Mac weekly mortgage report: Mortgage rates tick up. Freddie Mac reports an average 6.84% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, up 6 basis points from last week's average 6.78%, according to ...
HomeOne mortgage: This Freddie Mac-backed mortgage also allows for just 3 percent down with PMI, but is available only to first-time homebuyers. You won’t get your low-down payment conventional ...
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008—passed by the United States Congress on July 24, 2008, with bipartisan support and signed into law by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2008—enabled expanded regulatory authority over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by the newly established FHFA, and gave the U.S. Treasury the authority to advance ...
For a list of articles discussing the Federal Home Loan Bank System, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, see Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: A Bibliography. Susan M. Hoffman and Mark K. Cassell, eds. Mission Expansion in the Federal Home Loan Bank System (State University of New York Press; 2010) 208 pages; Thomson, James B. and Matthew Koepke.
Freddie Mac weekly mortgage report: Mortgage rates tick up. Freddie Mac reports an average 6.84% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, up 6 basis points from last week's average 6.78%, according to ...
Freddie Mac weekly mortgage report: Mortgage rates tick up. Freddie Mac reports an average 6.84% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, up 6 basis points from last week's average 6.78%, according to ...
In addition, FIRREA gives both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae additional responsibility to support mortgages for low- and moderate-income families (12 U.S.C §1441a–2(b). Authorization for State housing finance agencies and nonprofit entities to purchase mortgage-related assets - Investment requirement).