Kroll Bond Rating Agency Assigns Preliminary Ratings to Freddie Mac STACR 2017-HQA2

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to 19 classes of notes from Freddie Mac’s Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) Debt Notes, Series 2017-HQA2 (STACR 2017-HQA2), a credit risk sharing transaction with a total note offering of $735,000,000. STACR 2017-HQA2 represents Freddie Mac’s 29th risk transfer deal under the STACR shelf, as well as the third in its actual loss ‘HQA’ series that features loans with loan-to-value (LTV) ratios greater than