# Appraisals for Higher-Priced Mortgage Loans Exemption Threshold
> **US Federal Reserve System** · Final rules, official interpretations and commentary. · Published 2016-11-30 · Effective 2017-01-01 · 81 FR 86250
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-28699
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Federal Reserve System
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 86250
- **CFR reference:** 12 CFR 34
- **Publication date:** 2016-11-30
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-01
- **Docket:** Docket No. OCC-2015-0021
## Abstract

The OCC, the Board, and the Bureau are finalizing amendments to the official interpretations for their regulations that implement section 129H of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). Section 129H of TILA establishes special appraisal requirements for "higher-risk mortgages," termed "higher-priced mortgage loans" or "HPMLs" in the agencies' regulations. The OCC, the Board, the Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) (collectively, the Agencies) issued joint final rules implementing these requirements, effective January 18, 2014. The Agencies' rules exempted, among other loan types, transactions of $25,000 or less, and required that this loan amount be adjusted annually based on any annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). If there is no annual percentage increase in the CPI-W, the OCC, the Board and the Bureau will not adjust this exemption threshold from the prior year. The final rule will memorialize this as well as the agencies' calculation method for determining the adjustment in years following a year in which there is no annual percentage increase in the CPI-W. Based on the CPI-W in effect as of June 1, 2016, the exemption threshold will remain at $25,500 through 2017.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/11/30/2016-28699/appraisals-for-higher-priced-mortgage-loans-exemption-threshold)
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