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Sen. Isakson: 10-year Phase-out of GSE Backstop
Share|By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is drafting legislation that would phase out the federal backstop role in the secondary mortgage market over 10...
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Obama GSE Report Favors Public-Private Hybrid
Share|By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine The Obama administration puts the emphasis on privatization with a federal backstop as it outlines alternatives for replacing Fannie Mae and...
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Phipps: ‘Public Policy Will Be the Way to Boost Home Owner Confidence’
Share|By Katherine Tarbox, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine 2011 NAR President Ron Phipps (left) with 2011 Colorado Association of REALTORS® President Randy Reynolds, who stopped in for the Denver leg...
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Phipps: ‘We Need to Empower the Consumer Voice’
Share|By Katherine Tarbox, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine As the debate in Washington continues over tax reform, a noticeably concerned group of real estate professionals and association members...
View ArticleFight for Home Ownership
Share|By Katherine Tarbox, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine A few of us from NAR have been travelling the country to follow the Home Ownership Matters Bus Tour as it visited in Chicago, Denver, and...
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Video: Getting Mortgage Lending on Track
Share|By Erica Christoffer, Multimedia Web Producer, REALTOR® Magazine Experts from the banking industry, GSEs, and advocacy groups spoke in a cautiously optimistic tone during the Mortgage Liquidity...
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Lawmakers Expected to Look at Fannie, Freddie Reform This Spring
Share|Since the market downturn several years ago lawmakers in Washington have been talking about reforming the secondary mortgage market but nothing has come out of Congress yet. This year, though, a...
View ArticleGOP Debate Sidesteps Fannie, Freddie Reform
Share|By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine A subject we’ve talked about a great deal here on the Speaking of Real Estate blog got some play during the Republican presidential debate...
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New Lawmakers Mean New Challenges on Home Ownership
School’s coming to members of Congress over the next two days as thousands of REALTORS® meet with lawmakers to provide a refresher course on how critical the federal government’s historic support for...
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Thomas Presses on Gov’t Backing, Loan Limits
NAR President Gary Thomas in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee this week again took aim at a proposal floated by a federal regulator to reduce the size of loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie...
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