The Federal Housing Administration on Sept. 27 announced new and extended COVID-19 relief options for borrowers recently or newly struggling to make their mortgage payments because of the pandemic and for senior homeowners with Home Equity Conversion Mortgages who need assistance to remain in their homes.
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MBA: 2Q Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding Up 1.5%
Commercial/multifamily mortgage debt outstanding increased by $60.7 billion (1.5 percent) in the second quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding report.
MBA: Loans in Forbearance Fall Under 3%
Loans in forbearance fell to under 3 percent for the first time since March 2020, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Monday.
FHFA Extends COVID-19 Multifamily Forbearance
The Federal Housing Finance Agency said Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will continue to offer COVID-19 forbearance to qualifying multifamily property owners as needed, subject to tenant protections the agency imposed during the pandemic.
MISMO Fall Summit: Building Confidence and Efficiency into Non-Agency Data Exchanges
CRYSTAL CITY, VA.–An efficient private-label securities market requires that investors have confidence in their understanding of asset quality for their deals. But questions remain, according to panelists here at the MISMO Fall Summit–and ongoing work under the auspices of MISMO is poised to help provide much-needed data standardization.
CoreLogic: Homeowners Gained $2.9 Trillion in Equity in Q2
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., said homeowners with mortgages saw their equity increase by 29.3% year over year, representing a collective equity gain of more than $2.9 trillion and an average gain of $51,500 per borrower over the past year.
MBA RIHA Climate Change Report: Mortgage Industry Needs to Improve Risk Management Measurements
Climate change triggered by global warming will continue at an unpredictable pace and will add stress to the complex system of allocating risks across housing and housing finance stakeholders, according to a new research report released Thursday by the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Research Institute for Housing America.
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“The mortgage industry will not be spared by the growing impact climate change is having on the environment, governments and individuals…Climate mitigation efforts are necessary to slow the adverse effects of global warming, and better and more standardized predictors of environmental risks are needed to make housing and housing finance more resilient.”
–Sean Becketti, author of a RIHA report on the effects on climate change on the real estate finance industry.
Share of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Falls to 3.00%
Mortgage loans in forbearance fell to yet another post-pandemic low and threatened to fall under 3 percent for the first time in more than a year and a half, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported on Monday.
MBA Announces Policy Initiative to Close Racial Homeownership Gap
The Mortgage Bankers Association on Monday announced a policy initiative, Building Generational Wealth Through Homeownership, aimed at providing industry leadership and direction for reducing the racial homeownership gap, developing and supporting policies that support sustainable homeownership for communities of color and promoting fair, equitable and responsible lending for minority borrowers.