HECM servicing policy updates finalized; FHA ups 2024 loan limits; Ginnie Mae announces optional early closing date for multiclass transactions; FHA seeks comment on payment supplement final disclosure statement model document; new collaboration to offer homes for sale under FHA’s Claims Without Conveyance of Title second chance program.

FHA plans to reduce barriers to the 203(k)-rehabilitation loan program.

With a healthy reading on FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, lender trade groups want further changes to FHA’s mortgage insurance premium policy. (Includes data table.)

FHA has added to its drafting table a revised proposed mortgagee letter on the planned Payment Supplement Partial Claim loss-mitigation program.

FHA Commissioner Julia Gordon said 2024 is all about execution.

Congress extends NFIP through Feb. 2, 2024; FHA proposes updated home equity conversion mortgage assignment claims eligibility policy; FHA extends waiver on face-to-face interviews with distressed borrowers; VA extends foreclosure moratorium for Hawaii wildfires; HUD OIG reports on HUD’s top management challenges.

The FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund remained healthy despite the 30-basis-point cut in insurance premiums earlier this year.

A recent jury decision against NAR, HomeServices of America and Keller Williams Realty may change how real estate agent commissions are structured.

The average credit scores for new originations of FHA mortgages declined somewhat after BofA and JPMorgan Chase ceased correspondent aggregation in the market.

Issuance of Ginnie MBS declined by 8.6% on a monthly basis in October. FHA and VA volume declined at similar rates while purchase-mortgage activity held up better than refinances. (Includes two data tables.)