The FHA will provide lenders that originate Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans the option to view and print unsigned HECM counseling certificates in FHA Connection starting Sept. 18, 2017. While the lender may still take the initial loan application, the lender can only begin to process it once the counseling is complete, as evidenced by a completed HECM counseling certificate that contains signatures of both the counselor and borrower. Lenders that chose to use this option will be required to establish procedures to obtain and document authorization from the HECM borrower to access the counseling certificate in FHA Connection. In addition, lenders must certify that a borrower authorization to view the counseling certificate was obtained. Lenders must follow the guidance on processing HECM loans contained in the HUD Handbook, the FHA said. To access HECM counseling certificates, lenders will ...
“We’ve gotten wind that we could see at least one other large money center bank enter the securitization markets,” said Christopher Abate of Redwood Trust…
At least 40 new loan brokerage firms have been created this year thanks to $500,000 in grant money donated last fall by United Wholesale Mortgage, Troy, MI. In fact, the effort has been so successful that, UWM – which is the largest table-funder of brokers – recently kicked in another $100,000. As for future growth in the initiative, that’s hard to say. UWM, so far, has been...
RSS