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Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that Sheila M. Greenwood will be joining its leadership team as the Director of External Relations, effective April 29, 2019. In that role, Greenwood will oversee the Office of Congressional Affairs and Communications...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose in February, up 0.3 percent from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.6 percent increase for January 2019 remained unchanged. The FHFA...

​Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that Adolfo Marzol has been appointed Principal Deputy Director of FHFA effective April 15, 2019. Marzol will report to FHFA Director Mark Calabria. Marzol is an experienced financial and risk management professional in...

​​Washington, D.C. – In an Agency ceremony, Dr. Mark A. Calabria was sworn in today to a five-year term as the second Senate-confirmed Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Dr. Calabria was appointed to head the Agency by President Donald J. Trump. FHFA was created by the Housing...

​​ Washington, D.C. - FHFA Acting Director Joseph Otting announced today that he has authorized the disbursement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's affordable housing allocations for 2018 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the National Housing Trust Fund of $244.86 million and...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today issued its semi-annual Credit Risk Transfer Progress Report describing the status and volume of credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions through the fourth quarter of 2018. The Report provides a comprehensive picture of how Fannie Mae...

​ Washington, D.C. - Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages decreased from January to February, 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...

PageContent Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose in January, up 0.6 percent from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) seasonally adjusted monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.3 percent increase for December 2018 remained unchanged. The...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its fourth quarter 2018 Foreclosure Prevention Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) completed 41,062 foreclosure prevention actions in the fourth quarter of 2018, bringing the total number of...

​ Joint Release Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Farm Credit Administration Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Five federal agencies today acted to ensure that qualifying swaps may be transferred from a...