The company purchased $592 million inrnmortgages for its Mortgage Related Investment Portfolio compared to purchasesrnof $8.92 billion in January.  In Februaryrnit sold $5.50 billion and liquidated $9.8 billion of those assets for an endingrnbalance of $627.82 billion.  This balancernconsisted of $206.1 billion in PCV, REMICs and Other Structured Securities andrn$421.72 billion in non-Freddie Mac mortgage related securities including $31.05rnbillion in Agency Securities, $139.78 billion in Non-Agency Securities, andrn$250.89 billion in mortgage loans.</p

The overall delinquency rate in the portfoliornwas 3.57 percent in February, down from 3.59 percent in January and 3.78rnpercent one year earlier.  The rate forrnnon-credit enhanced mortgages was 2.84 percent and for non-credit enhanced therndelinquency rate was 8.20 percent.  Multi-familyrndelinquencies were unchanged from January at 0.21 percent.  One year ago this rate of 0.36 percent.  The agency accomplished 4,644 loanrnmodifications in February and 9,369 thus far in 2012.

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