Freddie Mac

Freddie Mac is one of the two quasi-governmental mortgage investment companies regulated by the Federal Housing Financing Agency. Freddie Mac buys mortgage loans from banks who have made the mortgage loans to consumers. Freddie Mac sets criteria for the loans that they will buy and banks try to meet these criteria in order to sell the loans. When banks get money from Freddie Mac, they have more money to loan to home buyers.

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Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Boss James Lockhart on Fixing the Housing Market

Added June 22, 2009 by Ilyce R. Glink

At the recent meeting of the National Association of Real Estate Editors in Washington, D.C., James Lockhart, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which oversees Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, discussed how the housing market had changed from 2007 to 2009 and the strategy being used to stabilize the mortgage market. Read part of the speech here. Link to Questions and Answers with James Lockhart.

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