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Inside FHA/VA Lending

April 24, 2009

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FHA Loans' Role in Lending Bill Argued

FHA loans could be considered “subprime” under the definitions in the current form of a predatory lending bill in the House Financial Services Committee, but industry participants told lawmakers Thursday that FHA’s vital role in the mortgage market should warrant better treatment for... Read More

FHA Commissioner Nominee Spells Out Priorities

President Obama’s nomination for the next FHA Commissioner, David Stevens, said the FHA needs better risk management strategies to bolster the overworked agency, including ridding it of approved lenders who are exhibiting signs of poor performance. "FHA has become critical to the... Read More

Refi Boom Takes Share From Ginnie, FHA

The surge in refinance applications has predictably shifted a significant portion of the mortgage market away from FHA and its loan pooler, Ginnie Mae, and back to the conventional market and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The latest Inside FHA Lending analysis of industry... Read More

H4H Could Help Investors Repair Portfolios

Although business volume in the HOPE for Homeowners Program has been dismally slow, some proponents say the FHA refinancing tool could still prove to be a valuable option in efforts to clean up portfolios of distressed mortgages. Lend America, a growing mortgage banking... Read More

New Technology Amps Up FHA Fraud Detection

The substantial jump in FHA lending activity over the past year, resulting in a flood of applications, has led lenders on a search for a solution to help them deal with the rush of business and the increase in fraud that goes a long with it. BasePoint Analytics announced last... Read More

FHA Business Slows, Market Fragments Slightly

FHA lending fell a bit from January to February this year, and the average decline for the top 50 FHA mortgagees neared 8 percent over that span, according to an Inside FHA Lending analysis of the latest government data. Countrywide, operating as a unit of Bank of America... Read More

FHA Briefs

Another study came out this month disputing media reports that the number of FHA borrowers who have defaulted before making a single payment is on the rise. Lender Processing Services’ March market performance data show that while the number of FHA “first pay... Read More

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