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Opinion: Who will buy the mortgages?

Housing Wire

The question many in capital markets have been asking since the GSEs were put into conservatorship is this: Without Fannie , Freddie , or the Fed , who will buy the agency MBS? Today we are seeing this play out with a shortage of MBS buyers to the tune of about $2 billion in demand per day. trillion.

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With Biden win, here’s what to expect on mortgage forbearance and student loan forgiveness in 2021

Housing Wire

Assuming these results stick, I offer here some informed speculation regarding the effects these changes in government leadership will have on three critical issues in housing: mortgage forbearance, student loan debt, and GSE conservatorship. Maybe these forbearance crash bros spoke too soon ?

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