Experts fear that the move, though it could help the government's budget woes, could disrupt the fragile U.S. mortgage market ...

Fannie and Freddie were once private companies. As the subprime bubble inflated in the early 2000s, they lowered their ...

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 6.86% nationally, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac's weekly survey.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in April, as elevated mortgage rates and rising prices discouraged prospective ...

Mortgage rates for 30-year loans are now at their most expensive level since early May of last year. Most other new purchase ...

Sales of new U.S. single-family homes surged to more than a three-year high in April as builders lowered prices to attract ...

Shares of Fannie Mae rose 42.4% and Freddie Mac jumped 41.1% on Thursday after President Donald Trump said he is seriously considering taking the mortgage giants public. In a Truth Social post, Trump ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is “giving very serious consideration” to privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ...

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was considering making two giant government-sponsored home lenders public.

When asked Friday about President Donald Trump’s talk about privatizing housing-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sounded like a guy with a lot on his to-do ...

"Trump and Republicans are directly responsible for the spike in the 30-year Treasury bond yield and mortgage rates,” said ...