Glossary
GSE acquisitions
GSE acquisitions is mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the population FHFA's Public Use Database discloses one acquisition year at a time (Enterprises 2008-2024), which the catalog classifies as a domain concept. Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets documents it directly in FHFA PUDB.
What is GSE acquisitions?
GSE acquisitions are mortgages bought or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the population FHFA's Public Use Database discloses one acquisition year at a time (Enterprises 2008-2024).
Holder-type splits in the Fed's mortgage debt outstanding series treat GSE portfolios separately from banks and insurers.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - FHFA PUDB (tagging) — "gse acquisitions', 'fannie mae', 'freddie mac".
Why does GSE acquisitions matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and FHFA PUDB lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate GSE acquisitions in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Read FHFA PUDB's record on tagging — "gse acquisitions', 'fannie mae', 'freddie mac" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: commercial-residential-mortgage-finance data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - loan-to-value ratio - mortgage debt outstanding - public use database
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of GSE acquisitions?
FHFA PUDB is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on tagging reads: "gse acquisitions', 'fannie mae', 'freddie mac". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "GSE acquisitions" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing GSE acquisitions
6 datasets carry gse acquisitions in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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