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The conforming loan limits for Pierce County, WA will remain the same in 2024. This article will explain where the limits will be in the new year.
Usually, loan limits for Pierce County, Washington go up every year in response to rising home values. But that’s not the case for 2024, interestingly.
The conforming loan limit for Pierce County is $977,500, for a single-family home. Anything above that is considered a “jumbo” mortgage, meaning it’s too large to be sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Notes: In this context, a “one-unit” property is a regular single-family home. That’s the limit that applies to most home buyers in Pierce County. The two, three, and four-unit caps mostly apply to real estate investors purchasing multi-unit properties like duplexes and triplexes.
Related: FHA limits are also going up
In late 2023, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it would increase the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In most of the country, the 2024 maximum limit for a one-unit property is $766,550.
Loan limits are set at the county level, officially, but they are usually the same across an entire metro area. So, the 2024 caps shown apply to the greater Seattle metropolitan area, including King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.
| County Name | 1 Unit | 2 Units | 3 Units | 4 Units |
| PIERCE | $977,500 | $1,251,400 | $1,512,650 | $1,879,850 |
This change should come as welcome news to home buyers and mortgage shoppers. The higher loan limits will give borrowers more properties to choose from, without venturing into jumbo mortgage territory. (A jumbo loan is one that exceeds the conforming loan limit within the county where the home is located, and therefore cannot be sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.)
But since home prices in Pierce County actually decreased slightly over the past year, loan limits will remain the same in 2024 as they were in 2023.
Check out our mortgage loan limit tool for conventional, FHA, and VA loans, as well as the 2023 conforming loan limits for Washington State.
According to Zillow, the median home price across Pierce County dipped by 0.5% during 2023, to land at $527,871 by November 2023. So why is the single-family conforming loan limit for Pierce County so much higher than that? The answer has to do with the metro area grouping mentioned earlier.
Loan limits are generally kept uniform across metro areas, and home prices in and around Seattle are much higher than the countywide average for Pierce County. Seattle’s median home price is north of $827,235, as of November 2023. That’s why the conforming loan limit is set higher. Call it the “Seattle effect.”
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