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...Finally, when the MBS market first started taking off in the 1970s and 1980s it also needed a government quasi-guarantee in the form of backing from agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...In the US, they are largely possible only through government intervention, since many of the loans end up being guaranteed by government agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...But the bigger picture remains a strong economy and national housing shortage supporting rent growth combined with preferential government financing via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
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...Fannie Mae’s pause followed the pivotal event for the mortgage market, namely the collapse on Friday of Silicon Valley Bank....
...Financing for most property (except housing loans supported by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government agencies) is scarce, a result of the US banking crisis and dislocation in debt markets....
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...After the run on SVB, banks will probably need to reduce their holdings of mortgage-backed securities that are guaranteed by the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...That’s because new home construction is down sharply in both the US and the UK, and Fannie Mae is forecasting US home sales will fall 21.3 per cent year on year in 2023 to their lowest level since 2010....
...Fannie Mae estimates that at the end of October, more than 80 per cent of all borrowers had a mortgage rate that was at least 200 basis points below market rates, “by far the largest share in decades”....
...This was followed by similar deals by other US mortgage agencies such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, to little fanfare....
...Job moves The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has appointed former Fannie Mae boss Tim Mayopoulos to run Silicon Valley Bank’s bridge lender following the bank’s collapse....
...With that in mind, entities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which benefit from implicit guarantees, are unlikely to be deliverable....
...The data “clearly points to a housing market that has turned”, said Doug Duncan, chief economist at Fannie Mae....
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