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  • Government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have submitted proposals to extend their activities into under-served areas of the housing market, including mobile homes, rural housing and preserving affordable housing.
  • Freddie Mac is considering changing the structure of its structured agency credit risk (STACR) transactions, to open up the market to much bigger participation from real estate investment trust (REIT) investors.
  • House prices across Europe increased in 2016, but in the UK, while prices are still going up, the rate of growth has begun to to slow.
  • The success of recent Irish and Spanish non-performing loan securitizations has been a boon for beleaguered banks but anyone hoping for the same model to work for Italy will be sorely disappointed, said market participants.
  • As Brexit appears to be a damp squib, at least for now, the Bank of England should consider ending its Term Funding Scheme to bring UK mortgage funding back to normal levels.
  • Government policy is altering the landscape of the UK buy-to-let mortgage market, with changes to tax rules set to curtail participation among individual landlords and shifting the market in favour of limited companies.
  • Investors continue to show near limitless demand for new UK RMBS supply, with the latest buy to let transaction heavily oversubscribed down the capital stack.
  • Lone Star priced its latest Irish non-performing loan RMBS to strong demand, even as some investors expressed mixed feelings about the deal structure and underlying collateral.
  • Risk management and due diligence provider, Clayton Euro Risk, has moved to expand its Dutch footprint, hiring Maurice Wijmans as senior manager, business development for the Netherlands.