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Rosendo Caveiro on Last Week's Poll

'I'm sure it wasn't the multifamily rental business that brought these institutions down.'

By Crystal Proenza | Updated on September 12, 2008

THE FED’S TAKOVER OF FANNIE AND FREDDIE

On Sept. 7 the U.S. Secretary of Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced that government sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be placed in conservatorship. Last week’s national GlobeSt.com Quick Poll asked readers if the Fed’s takeover of the entities was the best possible solution for their recent liquidity concerns. Less than half of respondents indicated that the decision is unfair to taxpayers, while 60% agreed that the takeover is a viable solution. Rosendo Caveiro, senior director of apartment brokerage services for Cushman & Wakefield of Florida, spoke with GlobeSt.com about the way commercial real estate, in the form of multifamily rental buildings, interacts with the GSEs.

“With regards to the business of owning rental communities as a real estate investor, Freddie and Fannie have been the go-to institutions for financing apartment properties. From small deals to huge deals, they’ve been generally the least expensive in terms of rates, but also had fairly stringent underwriting guidelines.

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