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Severe storm fallout could destabilize the intersection of mortgage and insurance

Housing Wire

The home insurance marketplace has been facing a reckoning. The challenges that higher costs place on carriers, regulators , lenders and consumers has been well documented this year, and the acceleration of extreme weather events has only made things worse. Stork relayed a personal anecdote.

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Opinion: Rethinking the FHA mortgage insurance premium

Housing Wire

In 2013, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) began requiring borrowers to pay the Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) for the life of an FHA loan. People have equated FHA insurance to that of private mortgage insurance used by the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which is not life-of-loan.

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Now that interest rates are going down, here’s what to expect for the rest of the year

Housing Wire

Global events destabilizing the world’s oil supply could kick inflation back into high gear and make the FOMC’s QE and QT campaigns fail. Insurance demand for non-QM RMBS resulted from the convergence of more than one event coinciding. For insurance companies, this is the non-QM space. Find an alternative!

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Housing markets with flood and wildfire risk are booming

Housing Wire

Homeowners and renters may not have felt the full impact of climate-related disasters since, oftentimes, they do not end up directly paying for renovations or repairs necessitated by an adverse climate event, Fairweather said. Recently, prominent insurance companies have exited some of these areas.

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FHA borrowers hit first, hardest by sinking economy

Housing Wire

In recent months, the canary has been chirping with far less exuberance as inflation (now above 7% annualized ), rising mortg a ge rates , declining home values and the potential of faster-rising unemployment spurred on by a potential recession in the coming year all grip the FHA sector. Over the past 14 years, FHA has insured 9.1

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Reverse purchase financing: The financing option no one is talking about

Housing Wire

But unlike financing with a traditional mortgage, monthly principal and interest payments are not required on the loan, so long as the homeowner keeps up to date with real estate taxes, homeowners’ insurance and property maintenance. The HECM for Purchase is not a refinancing tool; it is not akin to a Home Equity Line of Credit ( HELOC ).

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Restoration of historic Frank Lloyd Wright home complicated by reverse mortgage

Housing Wire

Prior reporting does not specify if the home was indeed sold at the time the final borrower died, nor is it specified if the reverse mortgage in question is FHA-sponsored or a proprietary alternative.

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