Fannie Mae Home Price Index
The Fannie Mae Home Price Index (FNM-HPI) is a national, repeat-transaction home price index measuring the average, quarterly price change for all single-family properties in the United States, excluding condos. The index is produced by aggregating county-level data to create both seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted national indices that are representative of the whole country and designed to serve as indicators of general single-family home price trends.
Comment from Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, on Q1 2023 FNM-HPI results: "As expected, the annual rate of increase in home prices has slowed dramatically in response to the rapid and significant increase in interest rates. Still, the fact that prices rose slightly in the first quarter is evidence of significant pent-up mortgage demand, despite ongoing affordability constraints. Even though mortgage rates remain elevated compared to the previous few years, the acute lack of housing supply remains supportive of home prices. Of course, the shortage of homes for sale is currently being exacerbated by the so-called ‘lock-in effect,’ which continues to disincentivize huge numbers of households with low mortgage rates from listing their homes."
Learn more: Read the latest FNM-HPI press release and access the data.
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