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 ...

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 ...

Renewed efforts to privatize government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could make it over the finish line ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both GSEs are ready for primetime ... The full bear case (no privatization) is also the same: shares are effectively worthless. What’s changed from my last piece of research is that the midpoint ...

And previously the Wall Street Journal has reported that Trump has considered the privatization of Fannie ... ways they could try to release these um GSEs as we call them. Um but uh they're ...