18Research pieces indexed
Latest Jan 20, 2026

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Freddie Mac Multifamily reports 2025 production volume topped 77 billion dollars, up 17 percent year over year, supporting over 577,000 affordable rental housing units.

Freddie Mac reports that U.S. economic growth in Q3 2024 was revised upward with a resilient labor market continuing into the forecast period.

Freddie Mac forecasts positive but weaker multifamily growth in 2025, projecting rent growth of 2.2 percent and vacancy rising to 6.2 percent, with origination volume expected at 370 to 380 billion dollars.

Freddie Mac's outlook assesses U.S. economic momentum, housing market dynamics, and mortgage trends based on strong consumer spending and third-quarter growth.

Freddie Mac's three-year Duty to Serve plan with a substantive manufactured-housing section detailing objectives for MH loan purchases, MHC pad-lease protections and chattel.

Freddie Mac's November 2024 outlook assesses U.S. economic resilience, Q3 growth momentum, and moderating labor market conditions across housing and mortgage sectors.

Analysis using transaction-level data on rents, home prices, and mortgage payments to develop a new relative affordability measure and examine its effects on homebuyer behavior.

Freddie Mac analysis of mortgage prepayment behavior comparing floating-rate and fixed-rate loan performance as of June 2024.

Freddie Mac analysis of single-family rental prepayment activity and trends as of mid-2024.

Freddie Mac's midyear analysis of multifamily market conditions, trends, and outlook for 2024.

Freddie Mac analysis of Small Balance Loan prepayment activity and trends as of December 2023.

Freddie Mac analysis of mortgage prepayment behavior comparing floating- and fixed-rate loan performance as of December 2023.

Freddie Mac analysis examining refinancing and maturity risk exposure in the multifamily sector.
Tool for analyzing relative investment value in multifamily properties across select major metropolitan areas and nationally over time.

Duty to Serve research mapping MHROCs: only 1,065 of ~45,600 US MHCs (2.4%) are resident-owned; over three-quarters sit in Florida, California and New Hampshire.

Freddie Mac estimates a housing shortage of 3.7 million units as of Q3 2024, analyzing persistent undersupply across rental and for-sale markets.

Analysis of first-time homebuyer trends, affordability challenges, and supply constraints affecting residential housing demand.

Freddie Mac analysis examining spending patterns between homeowners with locked mortgage rates and renters facing rising housing costs.
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