FHA is seeking public comment on a proposed rulemaking as it looks to make permanent its long-running single-family loan sale program.

The agency is considering possible changes to the current criteria for delivering mortgages into multi-issuer mortgage-backed securities pools, including restricting VA cash-out refinance loans.

Housing and financial services groups are calling upon Congress to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, which is set to expire on May 31.

Ginnie Mae is seeking public comment about the impact of potential changes to its loan-pooling guidelines.

The specter of rising interest rates for commercial real estate debt subsided in the first quarter even as the credit quality of new commercial MBS remained stable, Moody's said.

Ginnie Mae has issued its first-ever security indexed to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, the leading candidate to replace the decades-old London Interbank Offered Rate. The agency expects more SOFR-indexed issuance in the future.

A roundtable discussion hosted by the CHLA found the FHA mortgage insurance program performing smoothly, though old, unresolved issues lingered.

Faced with a lawsuit from a tribal housing-finance agency, HUD has delayed implementation of a new policy regarding downpayment assistance programs for at least 90 days.

However, the Mortgage Bankers Association disagrees with Pinto’s findings...

Quicken vehemently denied the accusation and in April 2015 filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Detroit, accusing the government of “arbitrary and capricious conduct and misuse of power to extort money from lenders.”