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Flagstar/Fed News; FHA, VA, Ginnie Program Updates; New Lender Products

The manual includes several updates to the original May 2017 version ... new FHA, VA, and USDA Quick Reference Guide, providing a straight-forward summary of the minimum insuring, guarantee, and pooli... read more

10 tips to have an awesome mortgage in 2017

Those are two predictions we can make with confidence about 2017. As for mortgage rates ... too. See a detailed eligibility table. The primary feature of VA loans is that they can be used to buy a pri... read more

9 Grants and Programs for First-Time Homebuyers

FHA loans typically come with competitive interest rates, smaller down payment requirements ... the purchase price. First-time homebuyers could also be eligible for home financing education programs w... read more

Peter Boutell, Lending a Hand: Veterans do not need a down payment

Our federal government has a loan program for veterans that allows them to buy a ... The property condition requirements for a VA loan vary slightly from conventional loan requirements. For example, V... read more

Shulkin details 13 areas of improvement in his diagnosis of VA

Reporter Nicole Ogrysko discusses this story on Federal Drive with Tom Temin https://federalnewsradio.com/wp-content/uploads ... different program offices. He’s also directing VA headquarters to begin ... read more

Vendor News; VA, FHA, and Ginnie Mae Changes

And loan officers are viewing “digital mortgages” (precise definition vague) as a tool rather than a threat. Turning to program news, yes ... to make changes to both FHA and VA programs. PennyMac post... read more

VA lending turns in a record year

That included 12,968 loans in Illinois in 2016, or a total of $2.6 billion. The average loan in Illinois was for $204,999 compared with $253,000 for the nation, according to Veterans Affairs. The VA l... read more

Congress needs to protect veterans from bad actors in VA home loan refinancing

VA loans have lower credit score requirements than other mortgages, and often don’t require down payments. Since its inception, the program has been very successful, insuring more than 20 million home ... read more

Regulatory and Accounting Data

Bloomberg’s Collateral Tagging solution provides customers with an efficient mechanism to determine, classify and comply with the collateral eligibility requirements of the ... collateralized loan obl... read more

You Don’t Have to Make a Down Payment on a VA Loan—Should You Anyway?

(TNS)—Many VA borrowers know that the VA home loan doesn’t require a down payment ... Subsequent Funding Fees Higher The funding fee is 3.3 percent for VA buyers who use the program to buy their next ... read more

Funding for a new veterans choice program remains the big, unresolved question for VA

Some organizations, including the American Federation of Government Employees, see the elimination of VA’s current eligibility requirements for private sector care as a gateway to privatize core funct... read more