Real estate industry groups are urging the FHA to align a forthcoming proposed rule for private transfer fees with a final rule recently adopted by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. In a joint letter to Acting FHA Commissioner Carol Galante, the National Association of Realtors and the Institute of Real Estate Management expressed support for the FHFA rule on transfer-fee covenants and asked that a mortgagee’s compliance with the FHFA rule be deemed as compliance with the FHA’s own rule regarding such covenants. The two groups urged the FHA to ...