Walker & Dunlop Inc., of Bethesda, a real estate lender focused on multifamily loans, announced that it provided more than $415.1 million in financing for health care properties nationwide in 2012. As one of the largest lenders in the country ...

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There are only a few more weeks before changes in Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance go into effect — changes that will cost millions of borrowers who need a government-insured loan to get into a home more money.

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With all the political talk about reinvigorating and protecting the middle class, the government’s most venerable program for first-time homebuyers — that run by the Federal Housing Administration — may be on the verge of getting a little bit more expensive to use.

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Pity the poor loan officers. All they want to do is make their customers happy. Make their builders happy. Make their real estate agents happy. Make the company that they work for happy.

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Before the housing market took such a tumble and before millions of homeowners saw equity in their homes vanish in a blink of an eye, the idea of walking away from their mortgage was inconceivable to most borrowers. Yet as ...

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Thank you Greece. Thank you Spain. Thank you Portugal. Thank you for fueling the European debt debacle that continues to make the American bond market a haven for skittish investors looking for a “flight to safety” for their money. And ...

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Did you notice that mortgage rates once again are moving lower? Rates for a 30-year fixed is now easily below 4 percent, and adjustable rates for a five-year ARM are close to 3 percent. So even if you refinanced a ...

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They still don’t get it. A couple of weeks ago, with much fanfare, the Obama administration rolled out a new program that would allow FHA borrowers who settled on a home before June, 1, 2009, to refinance to current lower ...

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Changes are brewing again at Federal Housing Administration — one that is going to become a reality and another still in the idea stage by the Obama administration. The more concrete change is targeted at the amount of seller concession ...

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A couple of programs designed to help borrowers and those seeking to refinance have finally gotten underway. Lenders started rolling out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s Home Affordable Refinance Program (Part 2) on Dec. 1, while the FHA officially returned ...

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