As of June 28, Freddie Mac CFO Christian Lown will resign from the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) mortgage provider to join CoStar, the behemoth real estate listing and data and analytics company valued at around $30 billion. 

Usually, when someone leaves a government job for the private sector, there’s a tacit understanding that the new position comes with less public scrutiny and more—much more—money. There’s little reason to doubt that is the case here.

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