Tag Archives: FHA-Insured Mortgages

With factors ranging from low volumes to inflation and manpower shortages putting the squeeze on the property preservation and field services sectors, MortgagePoint speaks to the vendors, government agencies, and GSEs trying to guide this important industry through the challenges it faces.

An update to allowable inspection fees will increase compensation for inspections that determine a property’s occupancy status and safeguard neighborhoods from blight arising from inadequately maintained unoccupied homes.

In an effort to assist borrowers impacted by Maui’s August wildfires, mortgage servicers will be prohibited from initiating or completing foreclosure actions through May 6, 2024.

Multi-language translations of single-family mortgage documents in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese are now available for lenders and servicers when working with borrowers with limited English proficiency.

Due to the drastic increase in real estate prices over the last year, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has announced new loan limits for 2022 for its Single Family Title II forward and Home Equity Conversion Mortgage insurance programs.  The agency is statutorily mandated by the ...

In the February 2015 Mortgage Industry Outlook Report released last month by the Collingwood Group and the Five Star Institute, 39 percent of survey respondents who service Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgages said that the biggest challenge in servicing those loans was fulfilling the Agency's property preservation requirements.