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The survey provides monthly information on interest rates, loan terms, and house prices by property type (all, new, previously occupied), by loan type (fixed- or adjustable-rate), and by lender type (savings associations, mortgage companies, commercial banks, and savings banks), as well as information on 15-year and 30-year fixed-rate loans. In addition, the survey provides quarterly information on conventional loans by major metropolitan area and by Federal Home Loan Bank district.
Each month, FHFA samples savings institutions, commercial banks, and mortgage loan companies, and asks them to report the terms and conditions on all single-family, fully amortized, purchase-money, nonfarm loans that they close during the last five business days of the month. The survey excludes FHA-insured and VA-guaranteed loans, multifamily loans, mobile home loans, and loans created by refinancing another mortgage. In most cases, the information is reported electronically in a format that is similar to that used on FHFA Form # 075, which FHFA also accepts. FHFA tabulates the data and publishes standard data tables late in the following month.
FHFA will release January index values Thursday, February 28, 2019.
The data, tabulated and published as described above, is used to compile FHFA’s monthly adjustable-rate mortgage index entitled the “National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders.” This index is the successor to the index previously maintained by the former Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
Announcement Date
Index Month
Index Rate
News Release
January 24, 2019
December 2018
4.83
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December 27, 2018
November 2018
4.86
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November 29, 2018
October 2018
4.75
October 25, 2018
September 2018
4.62
September 27, 2018
August 2018
4.63
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August 28, 2018
July 2018
4.60
July 26, 2018
June 2018
4.59
June 26, 2018
May 2018
4.57
May 29, 2018
April 2018
4.51
April 26, 2018
March 2018
4.49
March 27, 2018
February 2018
4.28
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February 27, 2018
January 2018
4.12
The following tables present historical summary data prior to 2008 containing Rates and Terms on Conventional Single-Family Non-farm Mortgage Loans. This survey is the nation's most comprehensive source of information on conventional mortgage rates and terms.
Loans Closed, By Property Type - Table 1
Monthly
12/2017 - 12/2018
[XLSX]
Loans Closed, By Loan Type - Table 2
Loans Closed, 15- and 30- Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 4
Loans Closed, By Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - Table 5
Quarterly
4Q2017 - 4Q2018
Loans Closed, By FHLB District - Table 6
All Homes - Table 9
Annual
1963 - 2017
[XLS]
Newly Built Homes - Table 10
Previously Occupied Homes - Table 11
Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 12
By State - Table 15
1978 - 2017
By Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - Table 16
All Homes - Table 17
1973 - 2017
Newly Built Homes - Table 18
Previously Occupied Homes - Table 19
All Homes, Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 20
1986 - 2017
Newly-Built Homes, Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 21
Previously Occupied Homes, Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 22
All Homes, Adjustable Rate Mortgages - Table 23
Newly Built Homes, Adjustable Rate Mortgages - Table 24
Previously Occupied Homes, Adjustable Rate Mortgages - Table 25
All Homes, 15- and 30- Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 26
1990 - 2017
Complete History of the Index
