President Donald Trump is now embarking on his second term, and several policy initiatives are poised to influence the ...

Bill Ackman, the billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has an audacious plan to privatize Fannie Mae and ...

Explore Freddie Mac's privatization potential and valuation upside. Learn about key catalysts, risks, and why it could target ...

wrote in the Financial Times that such a move would “not only provide funding but also support the efficient privatisation of these key financial institutions” if the GSEs were moved into an ...

Brett Fawley, CBRE Investment Management’s director of research for Americas insights & intelligence, believes a privatization of the GSEs is easier said than done. Image courtesy of CBRE ...

How Privatization Would Change Mortgages Many experts agree that privatizing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae could significantly alter the way these GSEs function and the overall mortgage market.

The most immediate risk is that it could disrupt the mortgage market and lead to an increase in the average rate for a 30-year mortgage, which is currently at 7 per cent ...

And Pulte’s political ally and backer Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has been a cheerleader for privatization, with strong stock ownership in both GSEs that could ...

Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte has suggested that privatizing the GSEs was not an immediate ... that there may be a timeline for privatization after all. Namely, the ...

A privatization plan could involve the enterprises raising $20-30 billion from investors, valuing them at over $330 billion combined and potentially creating a significant windfall for the government.