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July 16, 2024
Beyond the Close: Collaborating for Post-Purchase Borrower Education
The entire housing finance ecosystem benefits when homeowners remain in their homes. Borrowers who are engaged sooner and educated more fully have a better experience and achieve more successful outcomes. This is the key to sustainable homeownership.
By The Single-Family Team, Freddie Mac
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News Articles | August 10, 2021
Freddie Mac Loan Advisor® Feedback Message Updates
To help you make quicker decisions and underwrite more loans, we’re improving our Freddie Mac Loan Advisor® feedback messages. Check out the latest updated messages to Loan Product Advisor® and Loan Quality Advisor® related automated collateral evaluation (ACE), Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) ARMs, rental income and more.
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News Articles | July 30, 2021
Testing Opportunities for Cash-Specified Payup Pricing Enhancements
We’ve got some upcoming testing opportunities for cash-specified payup pricing enhancements in the Loan Selling Advisor® customer test environment.
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Technology Updates | July 28, 2021
July Loan Product Advisor Releases
The July Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) releases align with the most recent Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide updates and to help you streamline the way you work. They include updates to Freddie Mac Enhanced Relief Refinance® mortgages and a new filter functionality added to the assignment log to help improve the way you access information.
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News Articles | July 16, 2021
Market Condition Fee for Refinances Eliminated
At the direction of FHFA, we will no longer assess the 50 basis points, market condition credit fee in price for certain cash-out and “no cash-out" refinance mortgages, effective for settlements on and after August 1, 2021.
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News Articles | July 12, 2021
Freddie Mac Launches New CreditSmart® Suite of Educational Resources
To support our efforts and in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Freddie Mac’s CreditSmart®, we’re excited to announce we’ve relaunched our suite of free educational resources that are designed to provide consumers with the skills and knowledge to assist them through every stage of their financial capability and homeownership journey.
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Technology Updates | July 12, 2021
Cash Specified Payup Pricing Enhancements Coming to Loan Selling Advisor®
We’re incorporating the specified payup in your cash mandatory fixed-rate product level price results in Loan Selling Advisor®. This means you’ll no longer have to look at a separate grid or calculate an all-in price when generating a Freddie Mac price sheet or creating a cash contract.
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Technology Updates | July 8, 2021
June Loan Product Advisor Releases
June Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) releases align with the most recent Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide updates and to help you streamline the way you work. We’ve also made changes because our clients spoke – and we listened. Check out how these improvements can help you get more accomplished in your day.
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News Articles | July 7, 2021
Guide Bulletin 2021-25: Updates Related to Affordable Lending, QC, Uniform Instruments and More
This Bulletin announces updates to affordable housing and lending, quality control, gift funds, Uniform Instruments, Cash-Released XChange®, and more.
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News Articles | June 30, 2021
Guide Bulletin 2021-24: COVID-19 and Other Servicing Updates
This Bulletin announces the expiration of the COVID-19 foreclosure moratorium, temporary changes to Freddie Mac Flex Modification® for Borrowers with a COVID-19 hardship and updates to PAID.
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News Articles | June 29, 2021
Updated AUS Specifications and Supporting Documents Published
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) published a joint announcement to notify lenders of updates to their AUS specifications to collect details about interested-party-provided closing costs and subordinate financing. They also addressed fixes and updates in response to critical business needs. Minor updates to supporting documents were also made in response to feedback received during implementation.