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Freddie Mac Prices $1 Billion Reopening of 4.125% Five-Year Reference Notes® Security

McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) announced today that it auctioned a $1 billion reopening of its 4.125% five-year USD Reference Notes® security that matures on September 27, 2013. The stop yield for the issue, CUSIP number 3137EABS7, was 2.861%, priced at 105.645626 or approximately 104.5 basis points more than five-year U.S. Treasury Notes. The bid-to-cover ratio was 2.69 to 1.

After the reopening, which was conducted via an Internet-based auction, the total outstanding size of the 4.125% five-year Reference Notes security will be $6 billion. The issue will settle on Tuesday,  December 2, 2008. The issue is listed on the Euro MTF market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

Including today's offerings, Freddie Mac has issued $49 billion of Reference Notes securities during 2008 and has approximately $255 billion in Reference Notes and Reference Bonds® securities outstanding.

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 proxy statement, its Registration Statement on Form 10 dated July 18, 2008 and all documents that Freddie Mac files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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 Registration Statement on Form 10 dated July 18, 2008 and its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, filed with the SEC and available on the Investor Relations page of the company's Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors and the SEC's Web site at www.sec.gov.

Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation's residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible for one in six homebuyers and more than five million renters.

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