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  • True Lies: Beware Phantom Employers

    True Lies is our bimonthly series that shares real stories from the Single-Family Fraud Risk team’s experiences in the field, to help keep you informed on current fraud trends.

  • Freddie Mac Statement in Support of Transition to Secured Overnight Financing Rate for Single-Family Adjustable Rate Mortgages

    The following statement was released today by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) and is attributed to Timothy Kitt, Senior Vice President, Head of Pricing and Execution at Freddie Mac.

  • GSEs to Use ARRC Concept Paper for Single-Family SOFR Index-based ARMs

    Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (GSEs), under the guidance of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), intend to use the framework presented in a new paper by the Alternative Reference Rate Committee (ARRC) to modify existing ARM product requirements to enable the use of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) as the index.

  • Optional Use Period for the Uniform Residential Loan Application Will Not Begin July 1, 2019

    At the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs) are communicating that the optional use period for the redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) form and corresponding datasets will not begin on July 1, 2019 as previously scheduled.

  • How to Avoid Mortgage Fraud in 60 Seconds

    Mortgage fraud is big business. Private and government sources estimate it costs consumers and lenders billions of dollars a year. Not to mention the number of families who lose their homes and hurt their credit by unwittingly turning to scam artists for help getting a mortgage or avoiding a foreclosure.

  • ULDD Update Further Aligns GSE Specifications

    Today, Freddie Mac provided an update to Phase 3 of the Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD), to further align the GSE specifications, and to support the new Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA).

  • True Lies: Falsified College Transcripts Flunk 13 Loans

    True Lies is our bimonthly series that shares real stories from the Single-Family Fraud Risk team’s experiences in the field, to help keep you informed on current fraud trends.

  • ULDD Phase 3 Announcement

    Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are providing an update to Phase 3 of the Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD), as a follow up to our January 10, 2019 announcement. The GSEs are clarifying updates to existing ULDD data points, as described below.

  • CHOICEHome: The Next Generation of Factory-Built Housing

    At last, there’s parity in financing between qualified factory-built homes and site-built homes.

  • Reminder: Upcoming UCD Seller Data Requirement

    Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are committed to supporting the industry with its adoption of the Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD). As announced on June 26, 2018, the GSEs have reduced the Seller data requirements from previous UCD Specifications and have narrowed the requirement to the Seller data that is disclosed in the Borrower’s Closing Disclosure.