Commercial to residential conversions
The pandemic led to rising residential rents and falling office values, spurring interest in the conversion of office spaces into apartments. Research shows that these conversions often take the form of demolition and redevelopment, rather than adaptive reuse, and have limited potential to moderate rent growth.
Our updated Business Partner Code of Conduct
We've updated our Business Partner Code of Conduct to highlight our commitment to our mission.
Consumer Mortgage Understanding Study
We conducted a consumer survey that uncovered opportunities to close knowledge gaps in the mortgage process.
We Are in Every Market, Every Day
For over 35 years, Fannie Mae Multifamily has been a reliable source of mortgage capital for the secondary mortgage market. Our Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS®) model is the premier financing platform in the multifamily market. Delegation, risk-sharing, and life of loan servicing are the pillars that support our platform, and because of them we are able to make workforce rental housing possible in every market, every day.
DUS and Our DUS Lenders
We call DUS "The Loan We All Own" because it aligns the interests of lenders, borrowers, and investors. Our 24 DUS® lenders underwrite, close, and deliver loans on our behalf, and in exchange they typically retain one-third of the risk on every loan.
As the largest guarantor of mortgages in the U.S., we set the standards for the housing finance market through our underwriting guides, disclosure and asset management tools, data standards, and engagement with our lender partners.
Multifamily Insights
Multifamily Green Bond Impact Report
Our Green Bond issuances support the retrofitting of U.S. rental housing stock to become more energy and water efficient
Our model. Your partnership. 10 million stories.
Together, we’ve reached an incredible milestone — financing over 10 million units. Explore these properties and be inspired 10 million times over
Multifamily Financing
We serve a wide spectrum of the market, including conventional, rent-restricted, cooperatives, seniors housing, student housing, small balance loans, and Manufactured Housing Communities.
More than 90 percent of the apartments we finance are “workforce housing”, and are affordable to families earning at or below 120 percent of the area median income (AMI) – the teachers, first responders, and service workers who are an essential part of their communities.
Affordable Housing and Green Financing
Financing affordable rental housing is at the heart of what we do. We are committed to affordable housing for the long-term and want to be a part of the preservation, rehabilitation, and new construction of quality rental housing across the United States.
We are leaders in the Green Financing business, which we pioneered by creating financing solutions that incorporate energy and water efficiency and energy-generation concepts into traditional mortgage lending.
Multifamily Wire
December 13, 2021
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the release of DUS Inspect™, a powerful tool for managing property inspections.
December 8, 2021
Fannie Mae has been a pioneer in Multifamily Green Financing for more than a decade, creating new mortgage financing products and securities with positive environmental, social, and financial impact to meet the needs of property owners and green bond investors. We are thrilled to ann
November 29, 2021
Our Rent Roll Digitizer® product has been in beta since July, and we are now ready to make it available to the entire DUS® network. For the time being, we are only planning to digitize the rent roll data on refis and new acquisitions for qualified borrowers.
In the News
Market Commentary
June 16, 2022
The spring 2022 semester data on off-campus student housing fundamentals reflects the continued increase in demand as experienced by the sector during the fall 2021 semester.
June 16, 2022
According to the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), higher-income households occupied 28% of the non-income-restricted and non-rent-restricted multifamily rentals that were affordable to lower income households (that is, households earning 60% of the area median income (AMI) for their location
May 19, 2022
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 disrupted and transformed many aspects of everyday life. One of the ramifications of the pandemic thus far has been the ongoing global supply chain crunch that has made the cost of construction materials skyrocket.
