In short, the general loan limits remain unchanged from 2015's levels, but several high-cost county limits have been increased. As a reminder, Fannie Mae has a useful Loan Limit Look-Up Table which has been revised with 2016's new amounts. Clicking this link will prompt a download of the excel spreadsheet, which includes every county's loan limits and numerical codes. Or you can access Fannie's loan limit page HERE. The FHFA provided a useful PDF that exclusively highlights the counties that changed HERE. Alternatively, here is the entire list (click to enlarge):
A few interesting factoids from the spreadsheet:
- Alaska is the state with highest number of counties at the high-cost max.
- Virginia has the most when it comes to the lower 48 states
- The overall New York/Newark metro area has the most counties at high-cost max (25), followed closely by the DC/Arlington/Alexandria metro areas (24)