June 2012 - Posts

• The GSE Portal and Your Data

  By RICHARD HEYN, SRA and DAWN MOLITOR-GENNRICH, SRA When a lender chooses to sell a loan to either Fannie or Freddie, they send the appraisal report to the Uniform Collateral Data Portal (UCDP) in a highly "readable" file format (XML) for data...

• Clarification in the Ratings Definitions

  By RICHARD HEYN, SRA and DAWN MOLITOR-GENNRICH, SRA Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have recently updated Appendix D, of the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD). (View UAD Update) The key areas updated were "Notes" to the condition and quality ratings...