Foreclosures Stalled for Military Service Members

Freddie Mac Extends Foreclosure Protection for Service Members Through 2011

For Immediate Release

December 17, 2010
Contact: corprel@freddiemac.com
or (703) 903-3933

McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) today instructed its servicers to delay initiating foreclosure for at least nine months for financially troubled service members who are released from active duty through the end of 2011 and have Freddie Mac-owned mortgages. Freddie Mac is one of the nation’s largest investors in conforming, conventional mortgages.

News Facts

• Freddie Mac’s decision to extend the nine-month foreclosure stay will give lenders more time to work with service members that are having difficulty paying their mortgage.
  
• Freddie Mac is making this protection a requirement for servicing our mortgages although its original authorization in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) expires on December 31, 2010.
  
• The nine-month stay was originally authorized for service members under amendments to the Service members Civil Relief Act (SCRA) included in HERA. 
  

News Quotes

“Our military make sacrifices every day to protect our homes and families,” said Anthony Renzi, Executive Vice President of Single Family Portfolio Management at Freddie Mac. “This small act will protect financially troubled service members when they return from active duty by giving them more time to work with their lender to stay in their home.”
Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters.
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Freddie Mac suspends evictions for the holidays

Freddie Mac suspends evictions for the holidays
December 1, 2010

Mortgage titan Freddie Mac said Wednesday that homeowners who have lost their homes to foreclosure will not be evicted from their properties over the holiday season.


The McLean, Va., mortgage investor said all evictions involving single-family homes and properties of two to four units would be suspended from Dec. 20, 2010, to Jan. 3, 2011.

"If the property is occupied, our foreclosure attorneys will suspend the eviction to provide a greater measure of certainty to families during the holidays," said Anthony Renzi, executive vice president of single family portfolio management at Freddie Mac.

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