In 2011, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revised its Federal Housing Administration (FHA) multifamily closing documents in recognition of modern commercial real estate legal structures (such as changes in the forms of asset ownership), to reduce the FHA’s bad loan risks and improve the efficient management of FHA programs by placing new obligations on lenders to perform more of the due diligence required for loan underwriting that was formerly performed by the FHA, and to require borrowers to recognize their responsibility for managing project operations in manner that prevents waste, fraud, and abuse.
HUD’s Multifamily Rental Project Closing Documents
HUD’s Multifamily Rental Project Closing Documents—Modernizing FHA Multifamily Financing
Volume 26 No. 3
By
Ann vom Eigen is an attorney-advisor in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Damon Y. Smith is senior counsel in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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