Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Fannie and Freddie End Funding of Single-Family Rentals; Price Gains Dampening Demand

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has pulled the plug on pilot programs run by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) to finance institutional investment in single-family home rentals. The programs began in February 2017 with a $1 billion loan from Fannie Mae to the Blackstone Group. The loan was originated by Wells Fargo with a Fannie Mae guarantee and secured by some of the 48,000 single-family homes Blackstone's Invitation Homes subsidiary had purchased during the recession, often from portfolios of lender-owned real estate, and turned into rentals. At the time, the Urban Institute wrote that the transaction "marks the first time a government-sponsored enterprise has facilitated financing for a large institutional operator of single-family rental properties," and Fannie Mae pronounced

from
http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/reports/newsletter/2018/8/22/3510

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