FHA Issues Temporary Waiver Suspending Early Payment Default Reviews

The Federal Housing Administration yesterday issued a temporary waiver of its Single Family Housing Policy Handbook4000.1 to temporarily suspend the requirement that mortgagees select and review all Early Payment Defaults on a monthly basis.

Tom Lamalfa: May 2020 Survey of Secondary Market Executives

What follows are findings from a survey of senior mortgage executives I conducted in the first half of May. Due to cancelation of MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference, this survey was completed over the phone rather than face to face, as has been the case in the 23 preceding surveys done since 2008.

ARMCO: Critical Defect Rate Drops 9%

ACES Risk Management, Denver, said the overall critical defect rate reached 1.56% in the third quarter, to the lowest defect rate since 2016.