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- Mortgage Financing: FHA's $7 Billion Reestimate Reflects Higher Claims and Changing Loan and Performance Estimates
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD, through its Federal Housing Administration FHA, provides insurance for private lenders against losses on home mortgages. FHA's largest insurance program is the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund Fund, which currently is self-financed and operates at a profit. This report determines what factors...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Mortgages: What It Takes to Get One Today
- Apply for a mortgage these days, and you'll quickly discover that lenders' attention to creditworthiness is drastically different from what it was two years ago. ...
- Articles 2009-07-07
- Can You Get Credit Now?
- Yes, lenders are starting to loosen up. But apply for a mortgage, refinancing, home-equity credit line, car loan, or credit card, and you'll quickly learn that the credit crunch isn't over.It's no secret that the Obama administration, the Fed, and Congress would love nothing more than to see banks start...
- Articles 2009-07-07
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- Builders applaud bill improving affordability.(Federal Housing Administration Down Payment Simplification Act of 2002)(Brief Article)
- Expressing strong support for S. 2239, the "Federal Housing Administration FHA Down Payment Simplification Act of 2002," the National Association of Home Builders NAHB said Senate passage of the legislation will help increase the availa Expressing strong support for S. 2239, the "Federal Housing Administration...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
- House and Senate Examine FHA Fund.(financial investigation of the Federal Housing Administration's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund)(Brief Article)
- Lawmakers in both the House and Senate held hearings last week to determine the financial health of the Federal Housing Administration FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. At issue was whether the economic soundness of the fund might allow Congress to use surplus FHA revenues for various...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- Stay, Pay, or Walk Away: A Hazard Rate Analysis of Federal Housing Administration–Insured Multifamily Mortgage Terminations
- "This study presents a competing-risk proportional hazard model of Federal Housing Administration FHA–insured multifamily mortgage prepayment and claim behavior. Estimates of multifamily prepayment and claim hazards in a competing-risk framework are provided. A bivariate Heckman-Singer nonparametric random effects distribution is used to control for unobserved heterogeneity in the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Federal Housing Administration Raises Roanoke, Va., Mortgage Insurance Limits.
- By Julie Miller, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 6--As part of an annual loan adjustment, the Federal Housing Administration has increased its single-family mortgage insurance limit by 3.4 percent in the Roanoke area. The increase that...
- Research articles 2004-01-06
- Charles H. Williams has been named head of Federal Housing Administration production for Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital in McLean, Virginia. D.C
- Charles H. Williams has been named head of Federal Housing Administration FHA production for Wells Fargo Multifamily Capital in McLean, Virginia. D.C. Aiken has been promoted to executive vice president of sales for HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation in Atlanta.
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Ginnie Mae: a tale of two entities; The plummeting market share of Ginnie Mae leads directly to the door of the Federal Housing Administration. Weak FHA production has weighed down any progress Ginnie Mae has made to regain lost market share. The decline
- IN RECENT TIMES, THE INSTRUMENTS OF federal housing policy helped by low interest rates have produced this country's highest rate of homeownership ever--cresting at 69 percent in 2004. The U.S. housing finance system has one of the most efficient and liquid secondary mortgage markets in the world today. Yet, there...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Bush and Congress clash over housing-rescue plan
- WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration announced new steps Wednesday to help more homeowners head off foreclosure, clashing with lawmakers in both parties who want the government to step in with a broader housing rescue. Scrambling to counter Democratic calls for a large federal housing-aid package, the administration said...
- Research articles 2008-04-10
- Senate bill would end ceiling on insured reverse mortgages.(Housing)
- New legislation from Sen. Rick Santorum (RPa.) would remove the ceiling on the number of reverse mortgages eligible for insurance by the Federal Housing Administration. New legislation from Sen. Rick Santorum (RPa.) would remove the ceiling on the number of reverse mortgages eligible...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- South Norwalk residential project receives federal agency's approval. (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to guarantee Starrett Corp.'s construction mortgage)
- A proposal to build a 225-unit housing complex adjacent to the South Norwalk railroad station passed a critical hurdle recently when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accepted the developer's application. The HUD will guarantee the Starrett Corp.'s estimated $20 million construction mortgage...
- Research articles 1992-02-17
- Federal Rental Housing Program Shut Down
- IN RECENT TESTIMONY BEFORE A SUBCOMmittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, the MBA stated that development of more than 50,000 desperately needed rental units in 33 states and the District of Columbia will come to a halt unless Congress and the Bush administration take immediate action to reverse...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Congress, administration each propose FHA mortgage relief
- The Mortgage Bankers Association MBA is urging action on reform of the Federal Housing Administration FHA even as the Bush administration and congressional Democrats push their own FHA homeownership-relief proposals. While MBA supports FHA reform and supports having it happen sooner rather than later, MBA Chairman-Elect David G. Kittle,...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Congress Passes Housing Bailout, Bush Signs Law
- In a rare Saturday session, the Senate approved the massive housing rescue package, which includes provisions to bail out both troubled homeowners and secondary mortgage market giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The bill was signed into law last week by President Bush. The most important provisions for credit...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- National Housing Assistance Program Supports Federal Mortgage Proposal.
- Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 21--President Bush's call for the removal of down payment requirements for FHA first-time home buyer mortgage approval drew support Tuesday from the head of a national housing assistance program. The down payment...
- Research articles 2004-01-21
- Prudential Huntoon Paige Closes $1.2 Million FHA Refinance Loan for Grasslands Housing, Inc
- COON RAPIDS, Minn. -- Prudential Mortgage Capital Company announced today that it has originated a $1.2 million refinance loan for Grasslands Housing, Inc., a section-eight, multi-family housing property located in Coon Rapids, Minn. Prudential originated the Federal Housing Administration FHA loan through its FHA lending business, Prudential Huntoon Paige. Prudential...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- -U.S. HUD: Cuomo says bill headed for Senate vote will increase homeownership/revitalize public housing.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 October 1998-U.S. HUD: Cuomo says bill headed for Senate vote will increase homeownership and revitalize public housing C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:061098 WASHINGTON - Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo today said a bill expected to receive final...
- Research articles 1998-10-08
- NAR Supports Proposed Federal Housing Administration Reforms
- WASHINGTON, April 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In written testimony submitted today to the House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, the National Association of Realtorsr expressed enthusiastic support for proposed FHA reforms, which will enhance the opportunity for more Americans to own a home. The reforms submitted...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Statement on signing federal housing administration legislation
- July 5, 1994Home ownership is one of the foundation stones of the American dream. Renewing and expanding this dream is one of my Administration's highest priorities and deepest commitments.Our economic plan, which did so much to lower interest rates, has helped make homes affordable for more people. As more Americans...
- Research articles 1994-07-11
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