Federal Housing Finance Agency
Role in each timeline
- Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator; it raised conforming-loan limits and approved new credit-score options.
- The Fed's Rate Path: From the 2024 Cuts to Warsh's First Meetings
Its director's mortgage-fraud allegation against Cook was the stated basis for Trump's attempted removal.
Federal Housing Finance Agency across every timeline
Every dated entry that names Federal Housing Finance Agency, from all 2 timelines, newest first.
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- FHFA and FHA implement new mortgage credit-score options Regulatory
The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac updated their selling guides for VantageScore 4.0 and FICO Score 10T. The agencies began accepting Vantage-scored loans from approved lenders, while the Federal Housing Administration permitted the scores for FHA-insured underwriting.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - The 50-year mortgage is dropped; the bond buying starts with $3 billion Response
Pulte told reporters the administration had other priorities when asked whether 50-year mortgages were still on the table, two months after proposing them. He said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had begun carrying out Trump's bond-buying order with an initial US$3 billion purchase, and said the two companies had more liquidity than they knew what to do with.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7
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- FHFA raises the 2026 conforming-loan limit to $832,750 Regulatory
The Federal Housing Finance Agency set the baseline 2026 conforming-loan limit for one-unit properties at $832,750 in most of the United States. The limit was $26,250 higher than the 2025 baseline and applies to mortgages eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7 - Trump floats a 50-year mortgage, and the FHFA says it is working on one Announcement
Trump posted an image on Truth Social pairing Franklin Roosevelt under the words 30-year mortgage with himself under 50-year mortgage. FHFA Director Bill Pulte confirmed on X that the agency was working on the product, calling it a game changer. No detail was published on the White House press page, and a 50-year term would not meet the qualified-mortgage rules written after 2008.
on Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7