Freddie Mac Announces Tenth $1 Billion Multifamily Securities Offering This Year, K-019

MCLEAN, Va., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) today announced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through Certificates ("K Certificates"), which are multifamily mortgage-backed securities.  The company expects to offer approximately $1.1 billion in K Certificates ("K-019 Certificates"), which are expected to price the week of July 23, 2012, and settle on or about August 14, 2012.  This is Freddie Mac's tenth K Certificate offering this year.

The K-019 Certificates are backed by 83 recently-originated multifamily mortgages and are guaranteed by Freddie Mac. The K-019 Certificates will be offered to the market by a syndicate led by Barclays Capital Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as co-lead managers and joint bookrunners. CastleOak Securities, L.P., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC will serve as co-managers. The K-019 Certificates include two senior principal and interest classes, one senior interest only class and a junior interest only class.  Fitch, Inc. and DBRS, Inc. have been engaged to rate the three senior classes of K-019 Certificates, which are each expected to receive a rating of "AAA(sf)", subject to on-going monitoring.  

"We are very proud to announce our tenth K-deal of the year, and our 30th transaction since the program began just over three years ago," said Mitch Resnick, head of Multifamily Capital Markets for Freddie Mac.  "With this issuance, we've brought $12.6 billion in collateral to market this year."

Freddie Mac is a leading issuer of agency-guaranteed structured multifamily securities. K Certificates feature a wide range of investor options with stable cash flows and a structured credit enhancement. K-deals include guaranteed senior principal and interest, and interest only classes.

The preliminary offering circular supplement relating to the K-019 Certificates can be found at http://www.freddiemac.com/mbs/data/k019oc.pdf.  A Freddie Mac multifamily investor presentation on the K Certificate deal structure and multifamily loan portfolio performance data is available at FreddieMac.com.  Freddie Mac also has an online tool for investors and analysts, Multifamily Securities Investor Access. This is a central database that houses all post-securitization data from Investor Reporting Packages to help investors and analysts monitor K-Deal performance.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 9, 2012; all other reports Freddie Mac filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ('Exchange Act") since December 31, 2011, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K; and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Exchange Act, excluding any information "furnished" to the SEC on Form 8-K.

Freddie Mac's press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. A description of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements can be found in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, http://www.freddiemac.com/investors/infostat and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, filed with the SEC and available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors and the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov.

Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters. www.FreddieMac.com.  Twitter: @FreddieMac

SOURCE Freddie Mac

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