Since 2012, almost all Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s profits have gone to the Treasury, more than repaying the cost of the ...

Under the Trump administration, the conversation is no longer theoretical, with implications for buyers, sellers and homeowners impossible to ignore.

A cloud of uncertainty has hovered over the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first half of 2025. The Trump ...

The ensuing mortgage-market meltdown led to a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which placed them into what’s known as “conservatorship,” an arrangement giving the federal government ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-backed enterprises that purchase mortgages on the secondary market, issue them as ...

The newly confirmed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Bill Pulte, who oversees mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, said he will not lower the conforming loan limit, or the ...

President Trump said again Tuesday he's working to take mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public, winding down 17 years of federal control over two central parts of the U.S. housing ...

Shares in Fannie Mae, or Federal National Mortgage Association, and Freddie Mac, also known as Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp, jumped 41.5% and 40.9%, respectively, by approximately 3:15 p.m. ET.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two giant mortgage finance firms, have been controlled by the federal government for nearly 17 years, but a long-dormant idea of making them private businesses is ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been under a conservatorship with the Federal Housing Finance Agency since 2008. The mortgage giants could be released into the private sector, meaning the ...