The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has proposed a new mortgage product it hopes will give homeowners a way to tap into home equity without surrendering the low rates they locked in the last several years. The agency sent a notice of a proposed new product to the Federal Register, which would enable Freddie Mac to purchase single-family closed-end second mortgages.
The transition from a three credit report requirement to two reports — known as bi-merge credit reporting — for single-family loans acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has faced its share of obstacles. Another potential roadblock to this change was introduced last week.
In case you weren’t aware, 2024 is a presidential election year. That means the usual campaigning and debating is ramped up many times beyond the usual rhetoric of non-election years. Though not as prevalent as other political topics, the housing and mortgage industries are not immune from legislators and policymakers trying to score political points.
President Joe Biden made housing and mortgages a key topic in his State of the Union speech last week, proposing a number of tax credits and proposals to help create more supply and improve affordability. While the President’s housing proposals received mostly positive feedback, one idea met with resistance.
Mortgage and housing experts continue to raise their optimism about the industry in 2024. That includes Fannie Mae. The company’s Economic and Strategic Research Group said last week that existing home sales and single-family housing starts are expected to grow modestly in 2024 amid lower mortgage rates and strengthening homebuyer sentiment.
As an FHA originator, processor or underwriter, it’s likely that in the ongoing foreclosure market you’ll run across a HUD REO loan at some point. The purpose of this multi-part article is to provide you with some useful information to help in your endeavors.
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11/29/2012- Fannie Mae Lender Letter 2012-11 Confirmation of Conventional Loan Limits for 2013 The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has issued the maximum loan limits that will apply for conventional loans to in 2013. All loan limits for 2013 remain unchanged from 2012.
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If only HUD would give me a job so I could revise their way of updating existing policies it would sure make a lot of our lives a whole lot easier so we could all work more efficiently! I don’t know about all of you but I sure get frustrated trying to sort through things like Mortgagee Letter 2012-18 while trying to compare it to the materials that were issued with Mortgagee Letter 2011-22.
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The following is part 2 of a multi-part article covering the upcoming changes that will be applied in DU over the weekend of October 20th when Fannie Mae completed an update. One correction to last week’s article: In the beginning paragraphs I incorrectly referenced DU version 8.3 instead of the correct version DU 8.2.
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For those of you who may not yet be aware, DU is planning a major update for the weekend of October 20th which will bring forth some significant changes. Because of the amount of changes, this is being presented in 2 parts. The following is part 1 of a 2 part series covering the various updates.
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As with any lending product, self-employment is always a topic that involves a lot of questions and uncertainty. The following FAQs represent a lot of the most common questions that FHA receives about self-employed borrowers and how to calculate self-employment income.
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This is part 2 of a multi-part series that provides helpful questions and answers about FHA appraisals, properties and valuations. I recently ran across this list as I was actually searching for something on a completely different topic. I found these FAQs so helpful and informative I felt the need to pass them on in hopes they will be useful to you as well!
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Much has been published lately about FHA streamline refinances particularly because of the recent drop to MIP rates for certain FHA to FHA streamline refinances but there’s one important topic I haven’t seen much if any press about and it’s an important one when we’re talking streamline refinances- important in particular for non-credit qualifying streamline refinances.
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Next Monday, June 11th marks the first day of FHA’s significant MIP/MI rate decrease for certain FHA streamline refinance transactions. The following FAQs are presented in order to provide you with the information you need to make the best of this extraordinary marketing opportunity for existing FHA borrowers.
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DU for government loans is updating during the weekend of July 21st to accommodate a number of messaging changes on topics such as bankruptcy and foreclosure for VA lending, 3-4 unit property reserve calculations for FHA lending. A summary of the changes follows below.
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Written By: Stacey Sprain
As an FHA originator, processor or underwriter, it’s likely that in the ongoing foreclosure market you’ll run across a HUD REO loan at some point. The purpose of this multi-part article is to provide you with some useful information to help in your endeavors.