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Subject: Pre-Foreclosure Sale (PFS) Program – Utilizing the PFS Loss Mitigation Option to Assist Families Facing Foreclosure
Useful Link: HUD PFS – Mortgagee Letter 2008-43, http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/letters/mortgagee/files/08-43ml.doc
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High foreclosure rates continue to have devastating effects on families and neighborhoods. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) remains committed to taking actions to help families avoid foreclosure. Since being introduced as a national program in 1994[1], the PFS Program has helped thousands of mortgagors in default to avoid foreclosure and transition to more affordable housing. The PFS Program can help many families who today are facing foreclosure. The PFS loss mitigation option allows a mortgagor in default to sell his or her home and use the sale proceeds in satisfaction of the mortgage debt when the proceeds are less than the amount owed.
This Mortgagee Letter (ML) serves to remind mortgagees of the relief that the PFS Program can bring to borrowers with FHA-insured mortgages. To facilitate greater use of this program, FHA has consolidated in this ML the requirements of the PFS Program that have been issued over the years, and has updated and clarified those requirements where needed, to better address the problems faced by mortgagors today and provide greater flexibility in considering a mortgagor’s candidacy for participation in this program….
[1] The regulations for the PFS Program are codified in 24 CFR 203.370.
