Several key players have rung in on the decision by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) to retain limits on the mortgage portfolios owned by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) had petitioned OFHEO, its regulator, last week asking to be allowed...
If you are getting a little muddled by the number and variety of reports about mortgage interest rates, home sales, homes prices, and so forth that we report here, please believe they are not as confusing as they appear. These are among dozens of reports issued monthly, quarterly, and annually on the...
It probably doesn�t mean a thing, or maybe it does. In any case, it demonstrates the fun of poking around the Internet to find little pieces of information that, if they are covered by the media at all, are buried on the back pages of The Wall Street Journal. This time it was a small piece on the website...