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Conventional Loan Limits for 2008 to Stay at $417,000

UPDATE 03/06/2008 Fannie Mae announced today that the conforming loan limit will raise effective April 1, 2008 for fixed rate loans and May 1, 2008 for ARM rate loans. These limits will only effect high cost areas which DOES NOT include any city or county in the states of Wisconsin or Illinois. Areas to benefit from this increase will be officially be announced tomorrow. More soon...

UPDATE 01/13/2008
: The temporary increase in the conforming loan limit that President Bush signed into law today will help bring stability, liquidity and affordability to an important part of the housing finance system. Fannie Mae is working with their regulators and their lender partners to implement the change as quickly as possible. As soon as the change is implemented we will post an update on this page.

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Fannie Mae today announced that its 2008 conforming loan limits would remain at the limits set in 2006 and 2007, as determined by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO).

Limits for single-family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae will remain at the 2006 and 2007 level of $417,000 for one-unit properties for most of the U.S. Limits for multi-unit loans for 2008 will be as follows: two-family loans $533,850, three-family loans $645,300, and four-family loans $801,950. The 2008 loan limit for second mortgages will be $208,500.

The maximum amounts for one-to-four-family mortgages and second mortgages in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands are 50 percent higher than the limits for the rest of the country.

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