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Freddie Mac Prices $500 Million Reference REMIC(R) R016

MCLEAN, Va., June 18 PRNewswire-FirstCall — Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) today announced it priced $500 million of Reference REMIC (R) R016, Class AM, CUSIP 31397TSN3, a Guaranteed Maturity Class (GMC) with an initial class coupon of 5.125% and a final maturity date of June 15, 2018. The GMC issue was priced at 99.83203125 to yield 5.1649%, or 220 basis points over the interpolated Treasury curve. Settlement is scheduled for Monday, June 23, 2008. Freddie Mac guarantees the timely payment of principal and interest on its Reference REMIC securities.

J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and Merrill Lynch were lead underwriters for Reference REMIC R016. Co-managers of the transaction were Barclays Capital, Inc., Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. The transaction also involved a selling group.

Information about the REMIC, of which the GMC is a part, is available in the Offering Circular Supplement on the Mortgage Securities page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/mbs. The Offering Circular Supplement can be obtained by entering "R016" in the REMIC Prospectus Lookup box.

This announcement is not an offer to sell any Freddie Mac securities. Offers for any given security are made only through applicable offering circulars and related supplements, which incorporate Freddie Mac's Information Statement and related supplements.

Freddie Mac's press releases sometimes contain forward-looking statements. A description of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in these and other forward-looking statements can be found in the company's Information Statement dated February 28, 2008, and related Information Statement Supplements, which are available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned corporation established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac purchases single-family and multifamily residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage-related securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible more than 50 million times, ensuring financing for one in six homebuyers and more than four million renters.

SOURCE Freddie Mac

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