Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are preparing to impose stricter ... The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Tighter lending rules could slow deal activity. To be effective, according to industry ...

(Reuters) - Mortgage financing firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are set to impose stricter rules for commercial property lenders and brokers, following a budding regulatory crackdown on fraud in ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are working on newer and even stricter rules for commercial lenders ... Riverside Abstract and Madison Title. Lending is expected to slow down with the new guidelines ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are planning to implement stricter ... Additionally, there may be new rules requiring lenders to conduct due diligence on the appraised value of properties by evaluating ...

This setup incentivized dangerous lending ... burst, Fannie and Freddie were placed under conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The conservatorship imposed rules aimed at ...

The lender will also update policies that limit business “with certain title companies when applicable” for its multifamily lending ... in the new Freddie Mac rules, but Fannie Mae notified ...

122) on lending ... set the "terms and conditions" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac security purchases expires. (ref 17) November 2010: Two years after the rules of conservatorship are established ...

The crackdown on commercial mortgage fraud is heating up. Fannie Mae confirmed for the first time an ongoing investigation into a litany of schemes that may be far more pervasive than was ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are preparing to impose stricter rules for commercial-property lenders and brokers, following a budding regulatory crackdown on fraud in the multitrillion-dollar market.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which serves as the primary regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, declined to comment. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac set to tighten real-estate lending rules, WSJ ...