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Total refinance volume fell slightly in January 2016 as mortgage rates hovered just below four percent over the previous five months. Mortgage rates decreased in January: the average interest rate on a 30‐ year fixed rate mortgage fell to 3.87 percent from 3.96 percent in December.
Additional January highlights include the following:
FHFA is committed to providing access to agency records through a citizen-centered and results-oriented FOIA program. Its unified FOIA regulation adopted the plain language question and answer format that often is preferred for general public audiences. As a new independent agency, its FOIA working group also is thoroughly reviewing changes that could improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of the agency’s FOIA program.
This Progress Report summarizes major activities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2015 that contributed to achieving FHFA’s strategic objectives as conservator of the Enterprises. FHFA set forth three such objectives in the 2014 Strategic Plan for the Conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (2014 Conservatorship Strategic Plan) issued on May 13, 2014: Maintain, Reduce and Build.
U.S. house prices rose 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). This is the eighteenth consecutive quarterly price increase in the purchase-only, seasonally adjusted index. House prices rose 5.8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014 to the fourth quarter of 2015. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for December was up 0.4 percent from November.
The Enterprises' Foreclosure Prevention Actions:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac began issuing the Uniform Mortgage-Backed Securities (UMBS) on June 3, 2019.
This quarterly report provides market participants additional transparency into a sample of the data FHFA receives and reviews on a monthly basis. The report focuses on alignment of prepayment rates, which continues to be important to the success of UMBS and to the efficiency and liquidity of the secondary mortgage market.
House prices rose nationwide in May, up 1.7 percent from the previous month, according to the latest Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (FHFA HPI®). House prices rose 18.0 percent from May 2020 to May 2021. The previously reported 1.8 percent price change for April 2021 was unrevised.
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) requires the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to submit an annual report to Congress on the collateral pledged to the FHLBanks, including an analysis of collateral by type and by Bank district.3 FHFA’s Report on Collateral Pledged to Federal Home Loan Banks provides the required information as well as additional analysis of data on the types and amounts of collateral pledged to the Banks to secure advances and other collateralized products offered by the Banks to their members.
