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Reference Tools · County Loan Limits

Category: Origination & underwriting  ·  Cadence: Annual  ·  Source: FHFA · HUD CHUMS 2026

What it does

Current-year conforming and FHA loan limits by county, for 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-unit properties, with the FHFA high-cost flag so you can tell at a glance whether a county is baseline or high-balance.

What’s in it:

  • Conforming limit per unit count — 1u, 2u, 3u, 4u for every U.S. county.
  • FHA ceiling and floor for the same county.
  • High-cost flag — whether the county is above the baseline conforming limit.
  • State browse plus a name search that tolerates “St. Louis” vs. “Saint Louis” drift.

Sample questions this answers in one click:

  • “Conforming limit in Travis County, TX, for a duplex.”
  • “Is Napa County a high-cost area?”
  • “FHA ceiling for 4-unit property in San Diego.”

Who finds this useful: loan officers scoping a borrower toward conforming vs. jumbo; underwriting teams validating loan size at submission; product teams building county-aware pricing.

› Open the County Loan Limits

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