The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to increase lender participation in its Section 184 program to meet increased borrower demand for housing financing on tribal trust lands.

The legislation would give Native veterans more opportunities to purchase, refinance and renovate properties on tribal lands through VA’s Native American direct loans.

FHA announces 2023 loan limits; VA circular describes interplay of conforming loan limits and VA entitlement; Ginnie makes VA lending recommendations; Ginnie offers new flexibilities for issuer financial eligibility requirements; FHA extends temporary loss-mitigation waivers; HUD IG issues reverse mortgage scam warning.

The New York regulator has ongoing investigations into other lenders in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Long Island.

Invitation Homes owns roughly 80,000 SFRs throughout the U.S.

The initiative provides local governments with expanded access to the CFPB’s complaint database...

The ratings service expects commercial MBS loan delinquencies will reach between 4.0% and 4.5% by year-end 2023. S&P Global Ratings, meanwhile, said CMBS delinquencies crept up 5 bps in November.

In its report to Congress on the liquidity of the VA home loan program, Ginnie Mae also made recommendations for improving the lending market.

Investors appear increasingly reluctant to sell their credit-risk transfer notes back to the enterprises at the prices Fannie and Freddie are offering.