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Treasury holds the cards on paused investor property and cash window caps
When it will come to continuing suspensions of procedures that roiled the property finance loan market in 2021, the ball is now in the U.S. Treasury‘s court docket. The Federal Housing Finance Agency and Treasury agreed in September 2021 to stop boundaries imposed by the Trump administration on total quantity and the variety of mortgages lenders’ could offer to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The boundaries, established in January 2021 by then-FHFA Director Mark Calabria and Treasury Director Steven Mnuchin, had infuriated the property finance loan sector, and was one of the first products Sandra Thompson tackled following she grew to become acting director of the agency. But rather of…