News Releases

​ Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose 1.2 percent in the second quarter of 2016 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). House prices rose 5.6 percent from the second quarter of 2015 to the second quarter of 2016. FHFA’s seasonally adjusted monthly index...

​ Washington, DC – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that 18,310 borrowers refinanced their mortgages through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) through June this year. FHFA's second quarter Refinance Report shows that while total refinance volume increased in June...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that it has made an additional increase to the 2016 multifamily lending caps for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), raising the caps from $35 billion to $36.5 billion for each Enterprise, effective immediately...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that it is extending the response period for the agency's Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer Request for Input (RFI) by 45 days. The input period was previously set to close on August 29, 2016, 60 days after the RFI was...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released a report providing the results of annual stress tests Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) are required to conduct under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). The Dodd-Frank...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its annual report on the single-family guarantee fees charged by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises). The report discusses guarantee fees charged in 2015 and provides a five-year perspective on guarantee fees dating...

​​ ​​​​Joint Release​ Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Housing Finance Agency Farm Credit Administration ​ Five federal agencies today announced a final rule exempting certain commercial and...

​ Washington, DC – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages were nearly flat from May to June, according to several indices of new mortgage contracts. The National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders Index was 3...

​ Washington, DC – U.S. house prices rose in May, up 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.2 percent increase in April was revised upward to reflect a 0.3...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released An Update on Implementation of the Single Security and the Common Securitization Platform ​. The Update details the progress made to date and describes the expected milestones that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises...