Most FHA-insured loans are approved through ... after incorporating the public comments are revisions to the manual underwriting requirements. Specific policy revisions included in this regulation ...

FHA is reversing an earlier decision to ... a 2013 update to the TOTAL Mortgage Scorecard and introduced manual underwriting requirements for mortgages submitted to the Scorecard with less than ...

Regulators and lenders quickly tightened mortgage-underwriting ... a separate manual analysis. That's bad news for homebuyers struggling to enter the housing market. FHA loans are targeted for ...

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has been insuring loans throughout the U.S. since 1934. These loans are popular with first-time buyers and those with lower incomes because the FHA is ...

WASHINGTON The Federal Housing Administration has released the first chapter of a new handbook designed to provide lenders with clearer guidance on the agency's underwriting requirements. FHA ...

The proposed changes reduce acceptable rental income history from two years to 12 months, among other expansions of FHA guidelines Today ... Single Family Housing Policy Handbook 4000.1. The proposed ...

The move upset a number of lenders who feared that some of their borrowers would be shut out of FHA financing ... to loosen underwriting standards, nixing an old rule that required manual ...

Effective for case numbers assigned Monday, the FHA is making a change to its Technology Open to Approved Lenders Mortgage Scorecard system that reinstates manual underwriting requirements for certain ...