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On May 29, 2019, FHFA published its final Monthly Interest Rate Survey (MIRS), due to dwindling participation by financial institutions. MIRS had provided information on a monthly basis 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. Additionally, MIRS provided quarterly information on conventional loans by major metropolitan area and by Federal Home Loan Bank district, and was 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,” also known as the ARM Index.
As some banks use the ARM Index as the basis for adjusting the interest rates on adjustable-rate mortgages, FHFA created and designated as the replacement for the ARM Index a version of Freddie Mac’s 30-year Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) that adjusts for differences between the two. This new index is called “MIRS Transition Index” and will be published on fhfa.gov on the final Thursday of every month. June 2019 was the first MIRS Transition index value to be published. The MIRS Transition index is intended to be used in lieu of the discontinued index for currently outstanding loans, and not as a reference rate on newly-originated adjustable-rate mortgages. The MIRS Transition Index was briefly referred to as PMMS+. It is not a replacement for PMMS.
MIRS Transition Index Release Dates
Index Value
April 2022
3.68
March 2022
3.44
February 2022
3.09
January 2022
2.97
December 2021
3.04
November 2021
2.87
October 2021
2.86
September 2021
2.87
August 2021
2.95
July 2021
2.93
June 2021
3.12
May 2021
April 2021
2.72
March 2021
2.64
February 2021
2.70
Historical MIRS Transition Index
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
May 29, 2019
April 2019
4.15
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April 30, 2019
March 2019
4.36
March 28, 2019
February 2019
4.46
February 28, 2019
January 2019
4.60
January 24, 2019
December 2018
4.83
December 27, 2018
November 2018
4.86
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Historical National Average Contract Mortgage Rate Index Values
MIRS Public Use File (CSV)
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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
4/2018 - 4/2019
[XLSX]
Loans Closed, By Loan Type - Table 2
4/2018 - 4/2019
Loans Closed, 15- and 30- Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 4
Loans Closed, By Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - Table 5
Quarterly
1Q2018 - 1Q2019
Loans Closed, By FHLB District - Table 6
All Homes - Table 9
Annual
1963 - 2018
[XLS]
Newly Built Homes - Table 10
Annual
Previously Occupied Homes - Table 11
Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 12
By State - Table 15
1978 - 2018
By Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) - Table 16
All Homes - Table 17
1973 - 2018
Newly Built Homes - Table 18
Previously Occupied Homes - Table 19
All Homes, Fixed-Rate Mortgages - Table 20
1986 - 2018
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 - 2018
