The 16th China Int'l Integrated Housing Industry & Building Industrialization Expo

May 10th-12th, 2024

Poly World Trade Center Expo

Only the threat of a global economic calamity in the form of a debt ceiling breach forced Congress to agree on reopening the federal government.

But while most issues facing the country have become decidedly red or blue, when it comes to getting private investors back into the mortgage market, and decreasing the reliance on government by resolving the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (known as Government Sponsored Enterprises or GSEs), Washington, D.C. is downright purple.

Since the mortgage meltdown in 2008, however, private capital has been a very small part of the mortgage making process. The government currently backs more than 90 percent of all mortgages made. The slow trickle of private investors who have been coming back into the market is increasing, but they have so far only shown interest in the safest, most pristine borrowers.