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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Help More Than 2.5 Million with Foreclosure Prevention Actions
Washington, D.C. – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed more than 134,000 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter of 2012, bringing the total foreclosure prevention actions to more than 2.5 million since the start of conservatorship in 2008 with nearly 1.3 million of those actions being...
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FHFA Reports Mortgage Interest Rates, November 2012
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in some adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) contracts, was 3.36 percent based on loans closed in...
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FHFA House Price Index Up 0.5 Percent in October, 2012
PageContent Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from September to October, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.2 percent increase in September was revised downward to a 0.0...
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FHFA House Price Index Up 0.5 Percent in October 2012
Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from September to October, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index (HPI). The previously reported 0.2 percent increase in September was revised downward to a 0.0 percent change...
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Record Low Mortgage Rates Contribute to Strong HARP Volume
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its October 2012 Refinance Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have refinanced more than 1.8 million loans through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) since the program began in 2009. In October...
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Deputy Director Stephen Cross to Retire from FHFA
Washington, D.C. – Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco today announced that Stephen Cross, FHFA’s Deputy Director of the Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation, will retire from the Agency in March, 2013. An important part of FHFA’s leadership team since the...
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FHFA Reports Mortgage Interest Rates, October 2012
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today reported that the National Average Contract Mortgage Rate for the Purchase of Previously Occupied Homes by Combined Lenders, used as an index in some adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) contracts, was 3.44 percent based on loans closed in...
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Maximum Conforming Loan Limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Remain Unchanged in 2013
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today announced that the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2013 will remain at existing levels. In most of the country, the loan limit will be $417,000 for one-unit properties. The loan...
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HARP Enhancements Continue to Bolster Program
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its September Refinance Report, which shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans refinanced through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) accounted for nearly one-quarter of all refinances in the third quarter of...
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U.S. House Prices Rose 1.1 Percent in Third Quarter 2012
Washington, D.C. – U.S. house prices rose 1.1 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter of 2012 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only House Price Index (HPI). The HPI is calculated using home sales price information from Fannie Mae and...