What Is Freddie Mac


Answer for "What is Freddie Mac?"

Judy Motley
  Century 21 Curran & Christie

Freddie Mac is a name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., which is a financial corporation chartered by the federal government to buy pools of mortgages from lenders and sell securities backed by these mortgages.


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