Freddie Mac has agreed to work with IMX, San Francisco,  to connect brokers and mortgage lenders electronically, the companies   announced Tuesday.   
They said their GoldWorks network would let lenders bid for broker loans  and arrange to buy them within minutes. 
  
"With more than 1,000 lenders on GoldWorks, brokers will be able to  receive real-time bids from the most expansive national pool of lenders   possible," said Bob Ryan, Freddie Mac's vice president of marketing and   pricing.     
Brokers would post information on borrowers and loans using IMX  software. Lenders who already use Freddie Mac's system to underwrite and   sell mortgages to the mortgage agency would be able to query the IMX data   base to find loans that meet their criteria and then bid.     
  
Brokers would be informed of the bids via the IMX software and through  electronic mail or pagers. When a bid is accepted, the identities of the   lender and broker are disclosed. The loan would then be delivered in the   usual way.