Perspectives
Insights into the topics and trends that are transforming the housing industry
Home Sales, Home Prices, and Mortgage Rates: Up or Down in 2019?
Over the past year, the unemployment rate dropped, mortgage rates rose, home sales declined and home prices increased in most areas of the country. What will 2019 bring?
Vice President and Chief Economist, Economic &Housing Research
Bright Lights in Nashville Point to Multifamily's Future
Last month, Freddie Mac Multifamily and our partners in the industry made our way to Nashville for the 2018 Freddie Mac Multifamily annual conference in Tennessee.
EVP Head of Multifamily Business
Transcript: Freddie Mac CEO Donald H. Layton Discusses Third Quarter Financial Results
Freddie Mac is performing exceptionally well. Our company's financial performance is very strong and we're fully supporting our mission of creating liquidity, stability and affordability.
CEO
A New Solution to an Old Problem: Making it Easier for the Self-Employed to Get a Mortgage
Amid the backdrop of rising interest rates and declining origination volume, lenders need a leg up to cast a wider net for borrowers, including the self-employed.
VP Loan Advisor Suite℠
Persistent Problems Require an Innovative Approach
Innovation is often born out of challenge. In fact, many of the most famous innovations in our history were in response to a challenge.
VP Multifamily Affordable Housing Production
Kelli Carhart
Vice President, Production and Sales
Testimony Before the House Financial Services Committee
The mortgage system we have today is fundamentally better than the one we had ten years ago, plain and simple. It is more safe-and-sound, more efficient and does a far better job of protecting taxpayers.
CEO
Transcript: Freddie Mac CEO Donald H. Layton Discusses Second Quarter Financial Results
Freddie Mac's transformation continued in the second quarter, with good business results and strong financial performance, providing the foundation to effectively deliver upon our mission and improve America's housing finance system.
CEO
Homeownership: A Considerable Achievement Currently Facing Hurdles
We can all remember the great sense of accomplishment felt after achieving a personal goal. For many people, that rush of joy and emotion was felt when they bought a home for the first time.
Vice President and Chief Economist, Economic &Housing Research
How AI for AI Will Change the Industry
When it comes to big data and how companies use it in their internal operations, one phrase comes to mind: 'vocational irony.'
Mortgage Innovation Director Single-Family Strategic Delivery
Who Is Tomorrow's Borrower? What We're Learning Might Surprise You
We're working on ways to provide lenders with a better understanding of future borrowers' hopes and fears, characteristics and challenges as they relate to homeownership.
SVP Single-Family Chief Client Officer
Freddie Mac First Quarter Results Demonstrate Stability and Innovation
Freddie Mac delivered $2.2 billion of comprehensive income this quarter, despite a major change in interest rates.
CEO
Past as Prologue: How Rising Rates Affect the Industry
Jobs. The economy. Avocado toast. There are plenty of topics that Baby Boomers and Millennials fight about these days.
Deputy Chief Economist