Friday, November 15, 2013

Seattle Housing Market- Regulation's future



Three Factors That Could Shape the Fate of Housing Overhaul



 At last month’s annual mortgage-industry trade show, most political and industry analysts agreed that there aren’t great odds that Congress will pass a bill addressing the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before 2014, let alone 2016.
Weitz - Congress CAN'T end Fannie or Freddie because they provide lending or guarantees for a majority of loans these days. Abolishing Fannie and Freddie would destroy the housing market and Congress knows it.
Several developments unfolding right now could make the next five or six months among the more consequential periods for housing-finance policy since the companies were taken over by the government five years ago. Here are three reasons why:
First, Fannie and Freddie are now reporting large profits. This could make it easier for the company’s defenders—who were silent when the firms were hemorrhaging cash during the bust—to more forcefully lobby in favor of less dramatic changes. By next February, when both companies report their fourth quarter earnings, both firms should be able to say that they’ve sent more in dividends to the U.S. Treasury than the amounts they were forced to borrow over the previous five years.
Rising profits could also trigger an important but obscure change in federal budgeting, where congressional accountants “score” the firms as revenue-generating entities. If that happens, Congress would either have to raise revenue or cut spending elsewhere as part of any overhaul.
Second, the Obama administration is moving ahead with plans to install a permanent director to the independent agency that oversees Fannie and Freddie, the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The director of the FHFA is an incredibly powerful job because it can stand in the shoes of the shareholders and board of directors of both companies, plotting long-term strategy and making day-to-day management decisions.
Third, the Senate Banking Committee is working in a bipartisan fashion towards constructing a comprehensive housing-finance overhaul bill that will address the future of Fannie and Freddie.
Bipartisan agreement is far from assured. It involves threading a needle between three general groups: the centrist supporters of the Corker-Warner bill, liberal Democrats who want to see a larger government role (particularly in affordable housing), and conservative Republicans who are wary of continued, heavy federal involvement in the mortgage market.
Whatever the committee produces will essentially mark the starting point for what, if anything, Congress is able to pass in 2015 or 2017. In other words, even if this is only the first inning, a number of key decisions could get made here that define the boundaries for the rest of the game.
House Republicans have advanced their own bill with no Democratic support, which should serve as one end point for any overhaul. How far the more-conservative House Republicans are willing to bend to support a greater federal role in housing could determine how soon a bill arrives on the president’s desk.
Lawmakers further out on the left, meanwhile, are likely to insist that this new system provides sufficient credit access to low- and moderate-income households. They’re wary of any market in which government guarantees mostly serve the borrowers that arguably need them the least. Among the key questions to unfold: what does the White House do if liberals decide that the centrist Senate bill doesn’t go far enough?
The upshot is that the next few months could show whether there’s any reasonable chance of getting legislation passed while Mr. Obama is in office, or whether these decisions will get kicked down the road beyond 2017. For 
Weitz - It will be interesting to watch, but our guess is much of this is classic congressional rhetoric that will not effectuate any materials changes for the indefinite future. Fannie and Freddie were a major reason why the market has recovered as they stepped in to fill the lending void when bank lending dried up. We simply don't see how that can be taken away and not lead a significant fall for Real Estate.
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