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Each calendar year, statute requires FHFA to adjust the conforming loan limits (CLLs) by formula to reflect the national rate of increase in home prices over the past year. More detail on that process can be found in our FAQs.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA’s) new Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) Aggregate Statistics Advanced Analytics Dashboard and the underlying data file make single-family home data easier to access and interpret.
As we noted in our last blogpost about rising home appraisals during the pandemic, the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA’s) new
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) imposes several important data requirements on FHFA. Section 1324 requires FHFA to provide to Congress an Annual Housing Report on the performance of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the Enterprises) in the previous year.
Every month, FHFA publishes a House Price Index (HPI) which measures the movement of prices for single-family homes in the United States. The monthly reports include indexes for all nine census divisions and the U.S. as a whole.
On October 24, 2022, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) Aggregate Statistics Data File and Dashboards. This marked the first time borrower data (with privacy protections) on appraisal reports for Enterprise single-family properties were available publicly. Through these new statical products, users may analyze data and create visualizations to explore broad trends in appraisals by property or neighborhood characteristics at various levels of geography.
In December 2015, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) issued a proposed rule that would implement "Duty to Serve" provisions included in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The statute establishes a "duty" for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) to provide leadership to facilitate a secondary market to improve the distribution of mortgage financing for very low-, low-, and moderate-income families in three specified underserved markets: manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation, and rural housing.
