U.S. Mortgage Insurers President Seth Appleton is encouraging FHA to focus on keeping its Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund healthy.

Policymakers need better coordination between FHA and GSE policies, according to Seth Appleton, president of U.S. Mortgage Insurers.

An inspector general identified counterparty risk related to protecting FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund as one of HUD’s top management challenges for 2024.

The broker share of the government-insured market declined to 20.4% in the third quarter, down from 21.2% in the second quarter. (Includes data table.)

FHA lacks sufficient safeguards to monitor its lenders and servicers and to prevent ineligible loans and claims in its mortgage insurance program, according to the HUD’s Office of Inspector General.

The revisions would increase the maximum allowable rehabilitation costs for a limited loan, update the rehab period for both standard and limited loans, and allow higher fees for program consultants.

The Department of Veterans Affairs also extended its COVID-19 refund modification program through May 31.

An appeals court’s decision in Show Me State Premium Homes v. McDonnell has introduced uncertainty regarding the insurability of title following a nonjudicial foreclosure tied to an FHA-insured property.

The goal, FHA said in a new report, is to improve the quality and efficiency of its data and allow its program offices to better collaborate.

Among other things, the proposed revisions will better align RHS’s single-family direct and guaranteed loan and grant programs.