Bloomberg Surveillance · Thursday, October 1, 2026
The White House may direct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase more mortgages to alleviate pressure on the housing market. Despite a large announcement for $200 billion in purchases made previously, a significant portion of that amount has yet to be utilized, and the entities are reportedly active in the market again.
“So one of the big tools, and we've talked about this as well, is that they can use is, of course, they can direct Fannie and Freddie, which are still part of the government, still in conservatorship, to buy more mortgages.”
“President Trump had announced a big, splashy announcement back in January before the Iran conflict had started that Fannie and Freddie would be buying $ 200 billion from From what we have seen, they still have a lot of that to go. So they have done some buying. They had sort of retreated from that. We think they are still, they're now active in the market once again.”