Fannie, Freddie Loan Cap to Rise in 2005
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Federal regulators on Tuesday  allowed U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac  to buy larger individual mortgages next year following a jump  in home prices, a move that would lower borrowing costs for  buyers of more expensive homes.
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Federal Reserve policymakers raised interest rates Tuesday for the fifth time this year and suggested they will continue their gradual rate-rising campaign in 2005.
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Homeowners increased their mortgage borrowing by almost $600 billion in the last quarter of 2006, an annual pace of 6.4 percent.
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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has finalized a rule that will require the nation&#39;s two largest housing finance companies to increase their purchase of mortgages for low- and moderate-income families and underserved communities.
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Interest rates on US 30- and 15-year mortgages rose for a second straight week this week, but the housing market remained healthy, with record sales expected for 2004, mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said on Wednesday.
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New mortgage accelerator loans promise faster debt repayment.
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Interest rates on U.S. 30-year and  15-year mortgages rose in the latest week as an improving  economy stoked fears of inflation, mortgage finance company  Freddie Mac said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK  - Fannie Mae, the top U.S. mortgage-finance company that is trying to move on from one of the nation's largest accounting scandals, will deliver a long-overdue report on its 2005 earnings by next September, the company's chief executive said on Thursday.
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Business & money: Mortgage lending rose to record levels last month as borrowers reacted to further interest rate rises.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-chartered mortgage funding companies, continued to spend more on lobbying in the first half of this year than almost every other corporation in the United States.
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NEW YORK -- Mortgage rates have jumped this week, propelled higher by news of strengthening in the economy. Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are averaging 5.82 percent in the new survey from mortgage company Freddie Mac.
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The rate consumers pay on, for example, a 30-year, $200,000 home loan will likely rise 0.2 percentage point -- an extra $9,200 -- as the largest US buyer of mortgages slows growth to meet regulators&#39; request to boost capital, an analyst said Friday.
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Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said that from next year it will raise the limit on mortgages it can guarantee and purchase to $359,650 from $333,700 now.
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The percentage of U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure in the first three months of the year was the highest in more than 50 years. according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
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Under pressure from federal regulators, mortgage giant Fannie Mae has agreed to boost its reserve cushion against risk by several billion dollars and take other sweeping actions to correct what were cited as serious accounting problems, including recalculating key transactions and tightening internal controls.
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Mortgage applications rose last week to the highest level in four months, according to a private survey. The survey, the Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s gauge of loan applications, increased 7.7 percent to
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US home buyers may see a slight rise in mortgage rates if housing finance company Fannie Mae, which is mired in an accounting scandal, slows purchases of bonds backed