HUD FHA Commissioner Stevens Update
June 2nd, 2010
HUD released a message from Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner, David H. Stevens, discussing the condominium approval process and a new initiative relating to electronic signatures.
For this edition, I would like to update you about some recent changes we have made to our condominium approval process and a new initiative relating to electronic signatures. I also want to give you a “heads up” about some upcoming changes for net worth requirements for FHA-approved lenders and broker participation in FHA programs.
CONDO APPROVAL PROCESS
We continue to receive questions about changes FHA made to the condominium approval process which took effect December 7, 2009. Briefly, we:
- Modified the 50% owner occupancy requirement to allow the exclusion of vacant and tenant-occupied REOs from the calculation
- Reduced the pre-sale requirement from 50% to 30% of the total units
- Increased the FHA concentration limit from 30% to 50%
- Relating to site condos, condominium project approval is not required
To view the message in its entirety, please click here
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