FREDDIE MAC PRICES $2 BILLION REFERENCE REMIC^SM R005

McLean, VA – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today announced that it priced $2 billion of Reference REMIC^SM R005, Class AB, CUSIP 31396HAN9, a Guaranteed Maturity Class (GMC) with a final maturity date of December 15, 2018. The GMC issue was priced at 99.515625 to yield 5.632%, or 102 basis points over the interpolated Treasury curve. Settlement is scheduled for Friday, February 17, 2006. Freddie Mac guarantees the principal and interest on its Reference REMIC securities.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Morgan Stanley and RBS Greenwich Capital served as the lead underwriters for Reference REMIC R005. Co-managers of the transaction were Banc of America Securities, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase and Merrill Lynch. 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 "R005" in the REMIC Prospectus Lookup box.

This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy any of these securities. Any such offering will be made by an offering circular and related supplements and offering circular supplements.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned company established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac fulfills its mission by purchasing 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 for one in six homebuyers and nearly four million renters in America.

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