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Fannie Mae releases updates on leasehold estates, manufactured homes, fraud prevention

The newly-updated Fannie Mae Selling Guide for November has aimed to modernize special property eligibility and underwriting considerations for leasehold estates, and it has revised the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE)’s project review requirements for properties secured by manufactured homes.

The Selling Guide has also updated requirements “related to the market area analysis of the appraisal report and add[ed] standardized definitions relevant to appraisal market areas to the glossary.” It also clarifies that sellers and servicers are “responsible for preventing, detecting, and reporting mortgage fraud.”

Regarding the leasehold provisions, the GSE revised its eligibility requirements “to provide clarifications and details ⇒

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