A lawmaker hinted recently that there’s consideration of moving the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service under the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s control, but any move appears to be at a conceptual stage.

FHA waived a policy that required lenders to provide notices to borrowers about various protections, a move the agency said would lighten some of the burden on lenders.

PHH Mortgage agreed to sell servicing rights for HECMs to Finance of America as part of a broader revamp of its strategy.

Former FHA commissioner lands at FDIC; FHA foreclosures rise; MISMO releases government-lending dataset; USDA lowers PITI ratio.

More large aggregators adopted eNotes this year, pushing up the share of closings completed digitally.

After revising its CMBS criteria, S&P Global ratings downgraded ratings on a number of commercial MBS deals.

The U.S. Mortgage Insurers said FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund is overdue for reforms, with the 2% capital ratio requirement not sufficient to meet the standards the GSEs and private insurers must satisfy.

Refi volume in Ginnie MBS issuance increased by 46.7% on a monthly basis to $15.25 billion in October.

Some 4.3% of FHA loans and 7.5% of VA loans are underwater, according to Intercontinental Exchange’s November mortgage report.

Issuers produced $47.87 billion of new Ginnie Mae single-family MBS in October, the highest monthly volume so far this year. Refis accounted for 31.9% of the new issuance. (Includes two data tables.)