Freddie Mac said Friday that its investment portfolio declined by an annual rate of 4% last month, reflecting the government-sponsored enterprise's repurchase this year of nearly all mortgages 120 days or more past due.
At the end of May, Freddie's total mortgage portfolio — which includes loans it guarantees along with other mortgages and mortgage-related securities held on its books — stood at $2.22 trillion, down from $2.23 trillion at the end of April.
The aggregate unpaid principal balance of loans in mortgage-related securities it holds fell by $9.2 billion, or an annual rate of 14.5%, to $748 billion.
Meanwhile, the delinquency rate on single-family mortgages Freddie guarantees was unchanged from the previous month at 4.06%.
