The robust second quarter brought year-to-date agency MBS issuance to $562.02 billion, just 1.3% below the level reached in the first six months of last year.
Once effective, the requirements of the HECM law are significant, according to Allison Schoenthal, an attorney and partner in the New York office of Hogan Lovells...
FHFA Director Mark Calabria on Bob Ryan: “Bob’s advice and counsel during my transition have been invaluable. I greatly appreciate his service at FHFA during the past five years and his role in helping ensure liquidity and funding for the nation’s housing finance system...”
How do you get out of a debt bubble? Answer: Raise taxes and cut spending, something U.S. politicians have been loath to do. Or you could print more money...
As we’ve noted before, Calabria is building a dream team of industry vets and policy experts, whose chief task likely will entail working with the Treasury Department on administrative reform…
FHA's Keith Becker: “The industry and most of our lender partners are leveraging this technology now, and we have to find a way to do that as well so we can stay current with the industry’s direction..."
According to HUD’s policy handbook, a non-permanent resident alien is eligible for FHA financing if the property will be the borrower’s principal residence…
H.R. 299 eliminates the cap on VA home loans, which means that qualified homebuyers can now borrow above the agency’s standard loan limit of $484,350 for most counties in 2019 with no downpayment requirements.