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​​ Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 49,573 foreclosure prevention actions in the first quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of foreclosure prevention actions to nearly 3.7 million since the start of the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose in April, 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 0.7 percent increase in March was revised upward to reflect a 0.8...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its 2015 Report to Congress . The statutorily-required report provides information about FHFA's 2015 examinations of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), 11 Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) and the FHLBanks' Office...

Washington, D.C. – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages were nearly flat from March to April, 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...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2016 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). This is the nineteenth consecutive quarterly price increase in the purchase-only, seasonally adjusted index. House prices rose 5.7...

​​​​ ​ ​​​​Joint Release​ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Housing Finance Agency Federal Reserve Board of Governors National Credit Union Administration Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Securities and Exchange Commission​​ ​ Six federal agencies are inviting public comment on...

Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that more than 3.4 million homeowners have refinanced their mortgages through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). FHFA's first quarter Refinance Report shows that more than 19,000 HARP refinances were completed...

​Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that it has increased the 2016 multifamily lending caps for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) from $31 billion to $35 billion, effective immediately. The adjustment is consistent with FHFA's 2016 Scorecard for...

Washington, D.C. – Nationally, interest rates on conventional purchase-money mortgages decreased from February to March, 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 February, up 0.4 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 0.5 percent increase in January was revised downward to reflect...