FHFA Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) API

The FHFA Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) provides loan-level data on single-family and multifamily mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as data on Federal Home Loan Bank member institutions. Files include National File A, B, and C for single-family mortgages and property-level and unit-class-level files for multifamily. Data is downloadable as zipped CSV files with accompanying data dictionaries.

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: fhfa:fhfa-public-use-database-api
name: FHFA Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) API
tags:
- Fannie Mae
- Freddie Mac
- GSE
- Mortgage
- Public Use Database
- CSV
humanURL: https://www.fhfa.gov/data/pudb
properties:
- url: https://www.fhfa.gov/data/pudb
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.fhfa.gov/data/public-use-database
  type: Overview
description: The FHFA Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) provides loan-level data on single-family
  and multifamily mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as data on Federal Home Loan
  Bank member institutions. Files include National File A, B, and C for single-family mortgages and property-level
  and unit-class-level files for multifamily. Data is downloadable as zipped CSV files with accompanying
  data dictionaries.