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Opinion: Rethinking the FHA mortgage insurance premium

Housing Wire

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan.

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Floify’s new platform aims to provide flexible pricing for mortgage lenders

Housing Wire

Digital mortgage automation solution provider Floify launched a mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform for lenders. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. — is a software development company that offers a digital loan origination system and POS for the mortgage industry.

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Written by an independent third-party auditing firm, the study produces a net present value of the total FHA forward and reverse mortgage portfolios. That is a far more aggressive standard than most private market capital cushions respectively. The actuarial study is completed as an obligation to Congress and submitted each November.

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Fannie Mae finalizes two additional credit insurance risk transfers

Housing Wire

On the heels of completing its first credit insurance risk transfer (CIRT) deal of the year in early March, Fannie Mae has announced that it has executed two additional CIRT deals. . billion of mortgage credit risk to private insurers and reinsurers. “We billion reference pool of single-family mortgages. If that $65.3

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Opinion: The risk in cutting FHA insurance premiums

Housing Wire

There has been a flurry of recent articles prognosticating a decrease to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance premiums. Several trade groups including the Mortgage Bankers Association have corresponded with the HUD Secretary in support of cuts. At least 137,000 of those borrowers have FHA-insured loans.

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Risk of mortgage fraud is on the rise in the current market

Housing Wire

Eric Hill, an Atlanta real estate agent representing a nationwide homebuilder, had a plan to help more than 100 homebuyers get mortgages. In the end, some $850,000 in claims had to be paid on defaulted government-backed mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Million — [Tampa, Florida].

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Fannie Mae launches eighth CAS note offering this year

Housing Wire

million note offering backed by a reference pool of single-family mortgages valued at $20.4 This latest CAS transaction, CAS 2022-R08, involves a reference pool of 67,644 single-family mortgage loans. trillion in single-family mortgage loans, measured at the time of the transaction. The offering is slated to close Aug.

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