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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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Press Release | January 15, 2019
Freddie Mac’s Home Possible® Reaches New Level of Support
In Three Years, the Mortgage Offering Helped More Than 262,000 Low- to Moderate-Income Earners Achieve the American Dream.
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News Articles | January 10, 2019
ULDD Phase 3 Reminder
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are reminding sellers to begin collecting specific new data points for loans with an Application Received Date on or after January 1, 2019, as outlined in previous Phase 3 updates of the Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD).
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Press Release | December 10, 2018
Freddie Mac Green Advantage® Program is Cutting Utility Bills for Hundreds of Thousands of Low- and Middle-Income Renters
Seventh “Duty to Serve” White Paper Shows How Water and Energy Efficiency Incentives Are Helping Workforce Families Reduce Housing Costs MCLEAN, Va., Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released a white paper on the impact of its Green Advantage ® program, which...
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Technology Updates | December 4, 2018
Update: Loan Selling Advisor® Purchase Statement Data Export Capability
Freddie Mac is committed to providing you with technology solutions that can help your business grow. We previously communicated that effective December 10, 2018 you’ll see the addition of several existing data elements that are being added to the standard Summary Data MISMO 3.0 export dataset.
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News Articles | October 29, 2018
Loan Selling Advisor - New Critical Edits and Seller Pipeline Management
Please review the list of requirements needing to be met to keep warning edits from becoming critical edits in Loan Selling Advisor®. Warning edits will become critical edits effective November 29, 2018.
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Press Release | October 15, 2018
Mortgage Translations Clearinghouse Launched to Help Borrowers with English Language Barriers
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Freddie Mac (OTCQB:FMCC), and Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) together announce the launch of Mortgage Translations – a centralized clearinghouse of online resources to assist lenders, servicers, housing counselors, and...
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Technology Updates | September 6, 2018
New Loan Collateral Advisor and UCDP Feedback Messages
Review feedback messages and Freddie Mac proprietary UCDP feedback messages pertaining to new enhancements being made to Loan Collateral Advisor, so that you can start building them into your processes and be prepared when the changes go into effect in the fall. These enhancements will mean that when you submit appraisals to the Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®), new collateral risk scoring and feedback messaging will help you simplify processes to create efficiency and provide greater opportunity for collateral representation and warranty relief.
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News Articles | August 31, 2018
Updates for Cash Executions
In early Q4 2018, Freddie Mac is making updates to support cash executions in Loan Selling Advisor®. Review the list of updates pertaining to Cash Payups for Mortgages with Specified Attributes.
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News Articles | August 3, 2018
UCDP System Outages on August 6 and August 12
The Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) Integration and Production environments will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from 5 p.m. ET on Saturday, October 20 until 5 a.m. ET on Sunday, October 21.
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News Articles | June 26, 2018
Important Update to the GSEs UCD Seller Data Requirements
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the GSEs) are committed to supporting the industry with its adoption of the Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD). Over the past several months, the GSEs have been working with the industry to understand challenges encountered with the collection of certain Seller-specific closing data elements.