FHA and VA are calling on servicers to provide special relief to furloughed federal workers and contractors as the partial government shutdown neared a full month with no end in sight.

Delinquency rates for FHA and VA loans in Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities rose in the fourth quarter of 2018, but loan performance was generally stronger, according to a new Inside FHA/VA Lending analysis. [Includes four data charts.]

Scheduled speakers included Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Kasper and Edward DeMarco, former acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Wholesale-broker activity saw roughly the same rate of decline as the retail channel did...

The odds of GSE “recap and release” becoming a reality just went down…

We’re just 11 days into the new year and already things are getting interesting in the mortgage industry...

Bright will earn significantly more working for SFIG than at Ginnie, easily doubling his salary and then some...

With Michael Bright's departure, GSE "recap and release" just got hurt...

The FHA handbook states that servicers can receive a “financial incentive” for offering forbearance...

Bright was first nominated to the post by President Trump in May of last year. He had been serving as an EVP at Ginnie.