Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The same home insurance scenario being played out in states like Florida and California due to elevated risk of natural disasters is becoming more pronounced in the Pacific Northwest according to a new report from the Seattle Times. No violation found.”

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday published a new version of its Single Family Housing Handbook 4000.1, which includes numerous updates to its guidance for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program overseen by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) appointed Madisyn Rhone as vice president of legislative affairs, the trade organization announced on Monday. In that role, she led the company’s Democratic government relations efforts and helped to develop federal policy positions. House of Representatives.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2024

The Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) on Wednesday released a plan that it says would “modernize” Ginnie Mae , the government-owned company that manages the securitization of government-sponsored loans. This undermines Ginnie Mae’s ability to run a market-driven program.” This recommendation is based on two other ideas.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 21, 2022

As someone who spent a career in the title insurance industry – both as a builder of a title business and leader of the industry’s trade group, — I am proud of the role we play in helping to protect what most Americans consider the biggest purchase of their lives. Why is a title search necessary for refinancing?

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced this week that it is extending a 90-day foreclosure moratorium for all Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured mortgages to the federal disaster area in Texas stemming from severe weather, tornadoes and flooding that hit several counties beginning on April 26.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Older adults and people with disabilities are often prone to financial distress, and they may require more resources to better understand their circumstances and options, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Applicants must complete this counseling before receiving a reverse mortgage.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2024

federal government. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) are a few key priorities related to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. Of that total, $220 billion is estimated for standard forward mortgages and $17.9 billion is for HECM.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Julia Gordon. The commissioner also discussed the rise in mortgage loan assumptions. ” Gordon spoke during the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Annual Conference held Oct. But, per the MBA, it takes on average about $2,500 to close a government loan. ”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Office of Policy Development and Research is seeking public comment related to application and origination documents for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

The Federal Home Loan Bank system is made up of 11 regional banks that pass on discounted loans to their membership of banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. in government subsidies. Through these payouts, FHLBanks are redistributing a public subsidy as a profit to banks and insurance companies. billion dollars(!)

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Prior to the advent and widespread use of title insurance, before taking title to a property, the buyer required that the title be free of any rights, interests, liens or encumbrances of others for which the buyer would be responsible for. We haven’t seen any real data based on the conversation that it is going to save money.

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Housing Wire

MAY 23, 2024

In the first quarter of 2024, 38% of a typical household’s income was needed to make a mortgage payment on a median-priced, new single-family home in the U.S. The NAHB/Wells Fargo CHI, a quarterly analysis of housing costs at both the national and metropolitan levels, measures the share of income needed to make a typical mortgage payment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 29, 2024

To gauge what caught her attention about this space and how reverse mortgages intersect with her work, RMD sat down with Frankowska to discuss how and why she is choosing to become involved in the senior finance space. naturally exposing her more closely to the American reverse mortgage industry. reverse mortgage space.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2021

Department of Housing and Urban Development declared Wednesday that the Federal Housing Administration will once again back mortgages for immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. are eligible to apply for mortgages backed by the FHA. are not eligible for FHA-insured mortgages.” .”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on Tuesday issued a request for feedback from the public on how it can increase access to small balance mortgages through its single-family mortgage insurance programs. Due to high fixed origination costs, many mortgage lenders shy away from offering mortgages under $150,000.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 11, 2024

President Joe Biden’s proposals for the housing and mortgage markets, announced during the 2024 State of the Union address on Thursday night, are “dead on arrival or troubling,” according to Isaac Boltansky, an analyst for financial services firm BTIG. percentage points and helping about 3.5 million families. Regarding the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2022

Some Federal Housing Administration -approved mortgage servicers have routinely flouted the agency’s loan modification program, according to Washington, D.C. 21 letter that a number of mortgage servicers employed by FHA-approved lenders failed to adequately implement loan modification options the FHA introduced in July.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

1, 2023, the jointly development Uniform Property Dataset (UPD) for the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) became active and included a data standard for condos, according to the Selling Guide. The update also clarifies the qualifying interest rate for adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) with terms of 7 and 10 years, respectively.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) program saw its share of total HECM endorsements in 2023 rise to its highest level since 2019. That’s not saying all that much. Still, signs of new life have emerged over the past seven months.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 6, 2024

Does the cost of homeowners insurance affect the price of a home? In recent years, insurance companies have pulled out of some markets altogether after sustaining massive losses due to wildfires, flooding, and other climate-related disasters. ICON, an Austin based firm, has developed a 3D printed wall system.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Community Home Lenders Association and the Community Mortgage Lenders of America , two Washington, D.C. lobby groups representing smaller mortgage lenders, will join forces. Several former congressional aides and a former top Department of Housing and Urban Development staffer will represent the new CHLA in the nation’s capital.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 12, 2024

For one, the mortgage servicing industry adopted some COVID-era, rescue-type packages where a house does not go into immediate foreclosure. Aside from taxes, property insurance costs have also risen, and coverage may even be difficult to find in some areas. creating chaos in property insurance markets.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 1, 2024

Affordability remains a critical issue in virtually all conversations about housing, and few people understand that reality better than leading housing and mortgage industry advocacy groups. So, we’re working with Congress and government agencies to reduce regulatory burdens and pass legislation that boost housing supply.”

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Ben Slayton’s Legacy Home Loans , the largest Black-led mortgage banking firm in the country, has launched a special purpose credit program for prospective Black borrowers in six cities across the country. The loan program uses credit guidelines based on factors such as timely rent, utility bill, phone, and auto insurance payments.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lesley Alli and Andrew Greenberg both joined NMI Holdings to serve as senior vice presidents, announced the parent company of National Mortgage Insurance Corporation Monday in a statement. Prior to this new position, she served as the chief investor and industry relations officer of Home Point Financial Corporation.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is taking a cautionary approach to changes to mortgage insurance premiums after a banner year for its Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) fund. Marcia Fudge said there were no near-term plans to change FHA’s mortgage insurance premium pricing.).

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 8, 2024

made separate announcements saying that an accord had been reached for funding the government this year. A partial government shutdown will take place on Jan. A government shutdown would present unique challenges for the reverse mortgage industry, especially in comparison to the traditional mortgage business.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The federal government’s top regulators announced Wednesday that they are collectively resuming mortgage servicing supervisory and enforcement practices in full, ending certain flexibilities it offered mortgage servicers at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2023

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) announced this week that it supports new federal regulatory proposals governing the use of automated valuation models (AVMs) in determining property values for mortgage originators and secondary market issuers.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration told mortgage servicers that they can now offer a 40-year loan term as a COVID-19 recovery option. Servicers for FHA-insured mortgages can offer the modification immediately, according to the latest update to FHA’s mortgage lending policies.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is moving to expand its COVID-19 loss mitigation “waterfall” by introducing a 40-year loan modification option and is asking the mortgage industry for input. Comments from the mortgage industry are due by May 31. FHA’s 40-year loan modification option has been in the works for quite some time.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

It now faces a wave of mortgage maturities and payoffs on the thousands of affordable-housing complexes it has helped to finance over the years — with no new construction carried out under the program since 2012. This USDA program, however, is in serious trouble.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2023

First-time homebuyers are the driving force of the housing market and typically utilize low down payment mortgages to achieve homeownership. It has enabled first-time, low- to moderate-income borrowers to secure affordable mortgage financing since 1957 while protecting taxpayers from mortgage credit risk. Today, roughly $1.5

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

On March 27, Congress passed the CARES Act to offer economic relief to those affected by the shut-downs, expanding unemployment benefits and offering mortgage forbearance to homeowners with mortgages backed or insured by the federal government, including Freddie Mac , Fannie Mae , VA and FHA. Approximately 4.3 million.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The Federal Housing Administration ’s (FHA) decision to withhold a mortgage insurance premium cut has confounded mortgage policy experts and industry stakeholders. based consultancy Potomac Partners , which specializes in the mortgage finance industry. “To

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