The lender is offering a temporary 125-basis-point incentive on VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loans and non-credit-qualifying FHA streamline loans.

The redrafted proposal provides specific examples of defects and clearer, proportionate remedies to the potential harm.

HUD has increased the total rehabilitation costs that can be financed under FHA’s limited 203(k) program and extended the allowable time for rehab and repair work to be completed.

The proposed rule seeks to create a permanent program governing the sale of seriously delinquent FHA-insured single-family mortgages and foreclosed home equity conversion mortgages.

HUD’s spring regulatory agenda includes about a dozen FHA-related items in the proposed or final rule planning stage.

FHA plans to retroactively adjust the calculation of debenture interest rates for claims filed on HECMs due or payable since Sept. 19, 2017.

Senate passes the VA Home Loan Awareness Act; USDA updates income limits for home loan programs; the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announce partnership to address disaster housing recovery challenges.

With the yield on the 10-year Treasury reaching multi-month lows of late, MBS investors see smooth sailing to a rate cut by the Fed.

The proposal aims to address issues that contributed to the failure of HECM lender Reverse Mortgage Funding in early 2022.

The pooling of about $100 million of SBA loans should provide economies of scale to smaller lenders.