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The vast majority of people in the U.S. believe it is a bad time to buy a home.

Pessimism Toward Mortgage Rates and Personal Financial Situations Grows WASHINGTON , March 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) decreased 1.8 points in February to 71.6, driven largely by consumers' increased pessimism that mortgage rates will go down in the next year. The share of consumers who say it is a good time to buy a home inched up last month to 24%, while the share who say it is a good time to sell dipped to 62%.

WASHINGTON , March 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today began marketing its most recent sale of reperforming loans as part of the company's ongoing effort to reduce the size of its retained mortgage portfolio. The sale consists of approximately 3,141 loans, having an unpaid principal balance of approximately $559.8 million, and is available for purchase by qualified bidders.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #creditratingagency--KBRA assigns preliminary ratings to 63 classes from Connecticut Avenue Securities Trust 2025-R02 (CAS 2025-R02), a credit risk sharing transaction with a total note offering of $710,598,000. The pool is characterized by loans with original loan-to-value (LTV) ratios that are greater than 60% and less than or equal to 80%. The Reference Pool consists of 49,051 residential mortgage loans with an outstanding principal balance of approximately $17.0 billion as of the cut-.

WASHINGTON , Feb. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae's (OTCQB: FNMA)  January 2025 Monthly Summary is now available. The monthly summary report contains information about Fannie Mae's monthly and year-to-date activities for our gross mortgage portfolio, mortgage-backed securities and other guarantees, interest rate risk measures, and serious delinquency rates.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offer significant upside potential if they exit conservatorship, but the investment carries high risk due to uncertainties. Fannie Mae is more attractive than Freddie Mac due to its larger scale, higher operating margins, and quicker path to exiting conservatorship. If equity is raised through an IPO, Fannie Mae wouldn't need to dilute its common shares as much as Freddie Mac.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greystone, a leading national commercial real estate finance company, has provided a $90 million Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting & Servicing (DUS®) Affordable Housing (MAH) loan to refinance a 317-unit multifamily property in Yonkers, New York. The financing was originated by Eric Rosenstock, Senior Managing Director in Greystone's New York office.

Program Recognizes 29 High-Performing Mortgage Servicers Across Three Key Performance Areas WASHINGTON , Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today announced its 2024 Servicer Total Achievement and RewardsTM (STARTM) Program results, recognizing 29 mortgage servicers for competency, capability, and overall performance. For more than a decade, Fannie Mae's STAR Program has awarded high-performing mortgage servicers for their loan volume and portfolio composition, and for demonstrating leading practices to improve the housing industry.

Mortgage Rates Predicted to End 2025 at 6.6 Percent but Remain Volatile WASHINGTON , Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Incoming gross domestic product (GDP), labor market, and inflation data point to an economy that entered 2025 with strong momentum, according to the February 2025 commentary from the Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. While the ESR Group's GDP outlook is unchanged at 2.2 percent Q4/Q4 in 2025, it revised upward its expectations for the Consumer Price Index, which is now forecast to end 2025 at 2.8 percent on a year-over-year basis (2.5 percent previously), primarily due to recently higher-than-expected inflation readings.

Wells Fargo's Vikram Rai joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the potential privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.