HUD Fair Market Rents
FY2026 HUD Fair Market Rents (0BR / 1BR / 2BR / 3BR / 4BR) for representative HUD FMR Areas.
Example
You enter
- State CA
- Area name San Francisco
- Shard {fiscal_year, areas}
You get
- Kind matched
Details, formula, and sources
40th-percentile recent-mover rent per HUD PD&R.
Per-area lookup against HUD Fair Market Rents at the 40th-percentile rent of recent-mover units in the HUD-defined FMR Area. Five bedroom-count columns (0BR / 1BR / 2BR / 3BR / 4BR) published per area. FMR Areas are typically MSAs, HUD Metro FMR Areas (which subdivide an MSA where rent differs by sub-area), or counties for non-metropolitan FMR Areas.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. Fair Market Rents for FY2026 (effective 2025-10-01 through 2026-09-30). Methodology per 24 CFR Part 888.
huduser.gov (Datasets, Fair Market Rents); per-area FMR lookup via the Geography selector on the same FMR dataset page.
Estimate. Lender governs final underwriting and rate / fee disclosure. Appraiser governs the appraised value. State law and the agency's program guidelines may impose stricter limits than the published thresholds.
Field names used by the API: state, area_name, shard, kind
- Coverage the bundled snapshot is a representative subset of ~19 MSAs / HUD Metro FMR Areas; canonical per-county lookup is at huduser.govHUD PD&R
- Percentile FY2026 uses the 40th-percentile rent of recent-mover units per 24 CFR §88824 CFR §888.113