This annual report describes FHFA's accomplishments, as well as challenges, the agency faced in meeting the strategic goals and objectives during the past fiscal year.
Read about the agency’s 2015 examinations of Fannie Mac, Freddie Mac and the Home Loan Bank System.
Submit comments and provide input on FHFA Rules Open for Comment by clicking on Rulemaking and Federal Register.
Goal: Help restore confidence, enhance capacity to fulfill mission, and mitigate systemic risk that contributed directly to instability in financial markets.
MAINTAIN foreclosure prevention activities and credit availability, REDUCE taxpayer risk, and BUILD a new single-family securitization infrastructure. Read more in the 2016 Scorecard and Conservatorships Strategic Plan.
Plans and Reports
FHFA experts provide reliable data, including all states, about activity in the U.S. mortgage market through its House Price Index, Refinance Report, Foreclosure Prevention Report, and Performance Report.
HARP - the Home Affordable Refinance Program was created by FHFA specifically to help homeowners current on their mortgage payments, but underwater on their mortgages.
FHFA economists and policy experts provide reliable research and policy analysis about critical topics impacting the nation’s housing finance sector. Meet the experts...
Key Topics pages provide information about FHFA's work on a range of issues facing the nation and highlight the most relevant related news releases, reports, statements and web pages on the respective topics.
The Honorable Melvin L. Watt of Charlotte, NC sworn in on January 6th to a 5-year term as the first Senate-confirmed Director of FHFA.
Read more about Director Watt
The HPI is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The HPI is a weighted, repeat-sales index, meaning that it measures average price changes in repeat sales or refinancings on the same properties. This information is obtained by reviewing repeat mortgage transactions on single-family properties whose mortgages have been purchased or securitized by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac since January 1975.
The HPI serves as a timely, accurate indicator of house price trends at various geographic levels. Because of the breadth of the sample, it provides more information than is available in other house price indexes. It also provides housing economists with an improved analytical tool that is useful for estimating changes in the rates of mortgage defaults, prepayments and housing affordability in specific geographic areas.
The HPI includes house price figures for the nine Census Bureau divisions, for the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and for Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and Divisions.
FHFA publishes monthly and quarterly HPI reports. See latest HPI Report.
See HPI release dates
Monthly Purchase-Only Indexes The standard indexes reported in monthly news releases. Use prices from sales transactions of mortgage data obtained from the Enterprises.
Quarterly Purchase-Only Indexes The standard indexes reported in quarterly news releases. Use prices from sales transactions of mortgage data obtained from the Enterprises
Quarterly All-Transactions Indexes Build on the purchase-only index data by adding prices from appraisal data obtained from the Enterprises.
Quarterly Expanded-Data indexesBuild on the purchase-only and all-transactions index data by adding prices from FHA and county recorder data.
Purchase-Only Indexes Volatility ParametersThe standard deviation of house price growth (accounting for the time between repeat sales). Use prices from sales transactions of mortgage data obtained from the Enterprises.
All-Transactions Indexes Volatility ParametersThe standard deviation of house price growth (accounting for the time between repeat sales). Build on the purchase-only volatility data by adding prices from appraisal data obtained from the Enterprises.
HPI ZIP5 Map
HPI County Map
HPI Four-Quarter Appreciation US
HPI Four-Quarter Appreciation Map
HPI Motion Chart
HPI Summary Tables
HPI Calculator
House Price Index FAQs
Methodology: HPI Technical Paper
House Price Index Focus Pieces
December 22, 2016
Monthly Index
October 2016
January 25, 2017
Monthly Index
November 2016
February 23, 2017
Quarterly Index (with Monthly Tables)
Dec. 2016 and 2016Q4
March 22, 2017
January 2017
April 25, 2017
February 2017
May 24, 2017
March 2017 and 2017Q1
June 22, 2017
April 2017
July 25, 2017
May 2017
August 22, 2017
June 2017 and 2017Q2
September 21, 2017
July 2017
October 25, 2017
August 2017
November 28, 2017
Sept. 2017 and 2017Q3
December 21, 2017
October 2017
