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Freddie Mac's Docs Guidelines Remain Unchanged By Foreclosure Crisis.(Special Report)

Mortgage Servicing News

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Byline: James Comtois

Washington-Should mortgage documents and forms be updated to reflect lessons learned from an ongoing market crisis? A negative answer may not convince everyone, it, however, is the case with at least one government-sponsored enterprise even though most loans operated in the marketplace today are GSE loans.

Despite the economic environment seeing drastic changes in the past few months, including the recent foreclosure crisis and the emergence of new government programs such as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Public-Private Investment Program, or the Making Homes Affordable Program, Freddie Mac's document custody guidelines have remained unchanged.

According to its Document Custody Procedure Handbook, Freddie's guidelines for document custodians has not changed since September of last year, a month before the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was signed into law. The GSE does not appear to have introduced any new forms or documents, as one would expect to see in ...

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