The House last week passed the Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act, which would raise fees for VA home loans to help fund expanded educational assistance for servicemembers.

Steven Abrahams of Amherst Pierpont Securities believes FHA might use surplus MMI funds to subsidize first-time homebuyers and other traditionally underserved communities.

The HUD Office of the Inspector General has recommended new procedures to address deficiencies in how FHA handles unpaid refunds that are due to borrowers.

Federal oversight is still needed to monitor the systemic risks to the housing-finance system, according to two separate reports from the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office.

Potential owner-occupants, along with nonprofits and government entities, will soon get more time to bid on HUD real estate-owned single-family homes before they are available to investors.

FHA Catalyst activates new mortgagee administrator role; VA increasing aggregate loan guarantee funding for specially adapted housing; Ginnie Mae to adopt blockchain technology; VA to hike fines for lenders that make false loan guarantee certifications.

Head of investment strategy at Amherst Pierpont Securities said changes to FHA premiums based on the MMIF capital ratio had big impacts on prepayments following the Great Recession.

Mortgage servicers have begun working with states on their new federally funded homeowner assistance programs.

With January more than half gone, it stands to reason that most lenders would have already created budgets for 2022.

HUD calculates $384.7 million in refunds was unclaimed as of June 16, 2020.