On October 31, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced, after a multi-year effort, the inclusion of policies for its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program in the Single-Family ...

An FHA loan offers financing to buy a home with a low credit score, as little as a 3.5 percent down payment and a cap on closing costs. But how do you find these miraculous mortgages? Here’s ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Housing and Urban Development is highlighting homeownership figures for first-time homebuyers in an annual report from the Federal Housing Administration released ...

In late February 2026, Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. completed a US$178.5 million follow-on common stock offering at US$85 per share, issuing 2,100,000 shares at a US$4.25 per-share discount to ...

After federal housing leaders issued a request for information in October about the future of two key reverse mortgage programs, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) weighed in ...

If a rumored large-scale layoff at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) occurs, it could result in major damage to key programs that mortgage lenders and investors rely on, such as project-based ...

A newly surfaced Freedom of Information Act response shows the Federal Housing Administration cannot readily say how many noncitizen borrowers have FHA-insured mortgages, even after it changed the ...

In welcome news for the industry, lenders and developers, on September 23, 2025, the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Office of Multifamily Housing Programs published a Federal Register final ...

Some of the major players in the mortgage market continue to tweak their loan programs, both to reduce risk in their portfolios and to cure their shattered financial condition. The Federal Housing ...

Federal Housing Administration mortgage-insurance programs are at risk as record U.S. home-loan defaults erode the government agency’s reserves, the inspector general of the Housing and Urban ...