The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced today that as of Friday November 30, 2018, the protocols governing new second appraisal requirements for Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) will become fully automated. The HECM second appraisal rule was first announced on September 28 in Mortgagee Letter 18-06, which outlined a series of procedures deployed on an […]

The Federal Housing Administration is discontinuing paper documentation and moving to email for two parts of the user ID assignment process for application coordinators. Both changes will be effective November 9. Under one change, mortgagees’ chief executive officers will begin being notified via email when an employee has been assigned a new user id. The […]

In an effort to illustrate the impacts of the latest reverse mortgage program changes, Federal Housing Administration officials presented supporting data at the the annual National Reverse Mortgage Lenders’ Association conference in San Diego last week. For the past 13 months, the reverse mortgage industry has been adjusting to lower principal limit factors and higher […]

In an effort to streamline the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage claim payment process, the Federal Housing Administration announced Monday that it has updated requirements for servicers assigning loans back to the FHA for processing. Effective upon release, Mortgagee Letter 2018-08 gives FHA-approved servicers more alternatives when it comes to required supporting documentation for their loans […]

To help clarify the latest changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage appraisal process, the Federal Housing Authority has published new Frequently Asked Questions to help make the transition smoother. The FAQs touch on the expected time frames, property-flipping cases, financing, and other guidance around the new appraisal rule.

Just days after Arizona’s Sun City community announced that its residents could begin obtaining Home Equity Conversion Mortgages, more Sun City 55-and-over communities have gotten the reverse mortgage green light. Originator Michael Thomas, a reverse mortgage specialist with V.I.P Mortgage, Inc. in Peoria, Ariz., said he received a lender alert from Reverse Mortgage Funding on […]

After more than two years of waiting, residents at the Sun City retirement community in Arizona can once again open Home Equity Conversion Mortgages thanks to a new approval from the the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Michael Thomas, a reverse mortgage specialist with V.I.P Mortgage, Inc. in Peoria, Ariz., said he received word from his […]