Date: January 9, 2015

To: All Approved Mortgagees

Mortgagee Letter 2015-01

Subject Reduction of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) annual Mortgage

Insurance Premium (MIP) rates and Temporary Case Cancellation Authority

Purpose This Mortgagee Letter (ML) communicates revised annual MIP rates for FHA

Title II forward mortgages and provides opportunity for cancellation of

existing case numbers in order to utilize the MIP rates contained in the ML.

Background Pursuant to its statutory mandate, FHA continuously strives to achieve the

appropriate balance between meeting the housing needs of the borrowers

FHA’s mortgage insurance programs were created to serve and minimizing

the level of risk undertaken relative to the insurance of those mortgages.

FHA has determined that the appropriate balance of its statutory operational

goals now requires a reduction of the rate of annual MIP charged pursuant to

Section 203(c)(2)(B) of the National Housing Act (NHA). As provided in

this ML, the total annual MIP charged pursuant to sections 203(c)(2)(B) and

(C) for most Title II Single Family forward mortgages has been revised as

provided in this ML.

Effective Date This ML is effective for case numbers assigned on or after January 26,

2015.

Affected Topic This ML reduces the rate for annual MIP for all Title II forward mortgages,

with terms greater than 15 years, except;

 single family forward streamline refinance transactions that are

refinancing existing FHA loans that were endorsed on or before May

31, 2009;

 Section 247 mortgages (Hawaiian Homelands)

This ML supersedes the annual MIP rates established in ML 2013-4. All

other sections of ML 2013-4 remain in effect.