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GAO highlights reverse mortgage counseling in new report

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) counseling program was cited as an example. Bush in 2008, established the Financial Literacy and Education Commission. Among a series of 24 examples of federal financial literacy programs for these groups, the U.S.

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FHA proposes updates to reverse mortgage debenture interest rates

Housing Wire

In a final rule titled “Strengthening the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Program,” FHA codified several significant changes to the HECM program that were previously issued by HUD under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 and the Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013. But the U.S.

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FGMC COO on why leaders invest in their greatest asset: their people

Housing Wire

Specifically, 2008 gave a lot of us, including myself, the gumption to pretty much get through anything in our industry. What is your company doing to develop the next generation of leaders? They are our largest asset and we work diligently to identify key talent, develop career pathing, and invest in overall human capital.

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FHFA finalizes rule on living wills for Fannie and Freddie

Housing Wire

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) finalized a rule on Monday that will require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to develop plans that would ensure upon their eventual exit from conservatorship, they won’t do any large scale harm to the financial system.

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Reverse mortgage originator: real estate CE helps close more purchase loans

Housing Wire

Mangus then worked to build the dedicated reverse mortgage department at his new company from scratch and has found a notable degree of success by building Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) for Purchase (H4P) business through the use of continuing education (CE) classes designed for licensed real estate agents. Curtis Mangus.

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Streamlining subsidies to build more affordable housing

Housing Wire

This is happening for a variety of reasons, from fallout from the 2008 Great Recession, restrictive local zoning policies and high land costs to labor and supply shortages. Unfortunately, the rising cost of construction forces developers to find more funding sources to complete these projects.

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Why new home sales are finally moderating

Housing Wire

Reports on housing data are headline-driven, and headlines are designed to cause folks to overreact in both positive and negative ways. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. But, we hadn’t seen that moderation in any meaningful way until today’s new home sales data. We finally cracked under 4.3

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