Reverse mortgages need better oversight, report says
The government needs to do a better job looking out for inaccurate marketing claims about reverse mortgages and ensuring potential borrowers get appropriate counseling, the U.S. Government...
View ArticleState gets $43 million for affordable rentals
Washington will get $43 million in stimulus money for affordable rental projects, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced Tuesday.
View ArticleFeds to refinance mortgages up to 125 percent of value
The federal government's Making Home Affordable refinance program will serve people whose mortgages are up to 125 percent of the value of their homes, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun...
View ArticleAppraisers target 12-year-old federal rule
With appraisal management companies taking over a huge share of the home appraisal business, appraisers want the federal government to rescind a 1997 rule they say harms good reviews.
View ArticleHousing authorities get money to keep families together
The King County Housing Authority will get $814,380 to pay for 100 rental-assistance vouchers to reunite children in foster care with their families, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
View ArticleZillow: 43,000 more area homeowners qualify for refi plan
The federal government's move Wednesday to expand its Home Affordable Refinance program allows an estimated 43,000 more homeowners in the Seattle area to qualify, according to Zillow.
View ArticleHUD awards $23.2 million in housing funds to Washington
Washington will get $23.2 million for rapidly getting housing fo families that fall into homelessness or preventing them from becoming homeless in the first place, U.S. Housing and Urban Development...
View ArticleAdministration pushes servicers to modify more mortgages
Senior Obama Administration officials talked Tuesday with top executives from companies participating in the Making Home Affordable mortgage modification program about how to improve its effectiveness...
View ArticleRuling clears way for new disclosures
New disclosure requirements for lender payments to mortgage brokers can go ahead Jan. 1, under a judicial ruling reported by Inman News.
View ArticleHUD fair-market rents up for 2010
Fair-market rents for King and Snohomish counties will go up next year, despite reports that rents actually are falling, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.
View ArticleHousing Authority awarded $10 million for Rainier Vista
The Seattle Housing Authority has been awarded $10 million by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for Phase III of the Rainier Vista project, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan announced...
View ArticleSeattle Housing Authority gets HUD money to go green
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan said last week that the Seattle Housing Authority is among three regional housing authorities sharing in a $21 million grant to make...
View ArticleHUD keeps dishing out the grants
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan has announced two separate grants in the past two days totaling about $26 million for the Seattle and King County housing...
View ArticleNew home sales slip unexpectedly
New home sales in September fell 3.6 percent compared with August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000, according to a report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the...
View ArticleSeattle projects win design awards
Imagine Seattle with “bubble wrapped” buildings and wildlife feeding on grass growing in the street. That vision, called [gu] (Growing Urbanism), won an Images that Provoke Award last month in the...
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