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Notice of Establishment of Housing Price Index; Notice and Request for Input

Open Date:
Open for comment 5/21/2015
Deadline:
All comments are due by 7/27/2015
Type:
Public Input Notice
Number:
2015-N-03
Group:
 
Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac
Document Number:
2015-12781
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Leventis, Principal Economist, 202-649-3199, Andrew.Leventis@fhfa.gov, or Jamie Schwing, Associate General Counsel, 202-649-3085, Jamie.Schwing@fhfa.gov, (not toll-free numbers), Federal Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20024.

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SUMMARY:  The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is establishing and shall maintain a method for assessing the national average single-family house price for use in adjusting the conforming loan limits of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the “Enterprises”). For these purposes, FHFA has considered a number of different measures, including the House Price Index maintained by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development before the effective date of the Federal Housing Finance Regulatory Reform Act of 2008. FHFA also considered house price indexes of the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce as well as other privately-produced indexes.

FHFA intends to use the FHFA “expanded-data” house price index (HPI)—an index it publishes on a quarterly basis—to adjust the conforming loan limit. This Notice solicits public input. Once public input is reviewed, another Notice will be published describing FHFA’s final determination.

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This notice is provided pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 (Privacy Act), as amended, 5 U.S.C. 552a. The collection of information is to process and/or respond to your complaint, appeal, inquiry, request for information, to review and post comments on proposed rules/regulations, to review feedback received on FHFA proposed or implemented initiatives, and to compile a list of potential vendors and contractors. The records are used in accordance with Systems of Records Notices (SORN), FHFA-3 Correspondence Tracking System, FHFA-20 Telecommunications System, and FHFA-22 Online Forms. You can view these SORNs by clicking here and here and here . Although providing this information is voluntary, failure to provide the requested information may result in your complaint, appeal, inquiry, request, comment, or feedback not being processed and may make it more difficult for FHFA to respond to you.

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