24 CFR §203.500 — Mortgage servicing generally

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fha-24cfr-203-500

24 CFR §203.500 establishes the general FHA single-family servicing framework under Part 203 Subpart C.

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  authority: 24 CFR §203.500 — Mortgage servicing generally
  description: |
    24 CFR §203.500 establishes the general FHA single-family servicing
    framework under Part 203 Subpart C.
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    section: 24 CFR §203.500 — Mandatory compliance with Subpart C servicing practices
    description: |
      [LENDER], as an FHA-approved mortgagee servicing FHA-insured mortgages,
      must comply with the servicing practices specified in 24 CFR Part 203
      Subpart C; failure to comply is not a basis for denial of insurance
      benefits but is cause for imposition of a civil money penalty
      (including a penalty under §30.35(c)(2)) or withdrawal of HUD's
      approval of [LENDER]. [LENDER] shall not commence foreclosure or
      acquire title until the Subpart C requirements have been followed.
    type: do
    audit_question: Can [LENDER] evidence (i) that it follows the Subpart C FHA single-family servicing practices on every FHA-insured loan it services, and (ii) that no foreclosure was commenced and no title was acquired before the applicable §203.500 Subpart C requirements were satisfied?
    program_review: Do the servicing P&Ps ensure Subpart C practices are followed on every FHA-insured loan, AND that no foreclosure is commenced and no title acquired until the applicable Subpart C requirements are satisfied?
    file_review: Pull serviced loans including foreclosure/title-acquisition cases; confirm Subpart C practices were followed and that the foreclosure/title-acquisition preconditions were met first.
    judgment: false
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    consequence: civil money penalty (including §30.35(c)(2)) or withdrawal of HUD mortgagee approval
    tags:
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      - fha
      - servicing
      - subpart-c
      - promoted
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      authority: 24 CFR §203.500
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      paragraph_quote: This subpart identifies servicing practices of lending institutions that HUD considers acceptable for mortgages insured by HUD. Failure to comply with this subpart shall not be a basis for denial of insurance benefits, but failure to comply will be cause for imposition of a civil money penalty, including a penalty under § 30.35(c)(2), or withdrawal of HUD's approval of a mortgagee. It is the intent of the Department that no mortgagee shall commence foreclosure or acquire title to a property until the requirements of this subpart have been followed.
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  - id: fha-24cfr-203.500-foreclosure-and-title-precondition
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    section: 24 CFR §203.500 — No foreclosure / title acquisition until Subpart C followed
    description: |
      [LENDER], as an FHA-approved mortgagee servicing FHA-insured
      mortgages, shall not commence foreclosure or acquire title to a
      property until the requirements of 24 CFR Part 203 Subpart C have
      been followed. This is the Department of HUD's stated intent in
      §203.500 and operates as a procedural precondition on foreclosure /
      title-acquisition activity.
    type: do
    audit_question: For every FHA-insured loan [LENDER] services where foreclosure has been commenced or title has been acquired, can [LENDER] evidence that the applicable Part 203 Subpart C servicing-practice requirements were completed before foreclosure was commenced or title acquired?
    program_review: Does the program gate foreclosure commencement and title acquisition behind completion of the applicable Part 203 Subpart C servicing-practice requirements?
    file_review: For the foreclosure-commenced / title-acquired population, confirm the Subpart C requirements were completed before foreclosure was commenced or title acquired — read against the servicing notes.
    judgment: false
    feeds: []
    workflow_phase: servicing
    owner_role: default_servicing_analyst
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    consequence: ''
    tags:
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      tier: 1
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      paragraph_quote: It is the intent of the Department that no mortgagee shall commence foreclosure or acquire title to a property until the requirements of this subpart have been followed.
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  - id: fha-24cfr-203.500-civil-money-penalty-consequence
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    section: '24 CFR §203.500 — Consequence of noncompliance: civil money penalty / mortgagee-approval withdrawal'
    description: |
      Failure by [LENDER] to comply with FHA Part 203 Subpart C servicing
      practices is not a basis for denial of insurance benefits but is
      cause for imposition of a civil money penalty (including a penalty
      under §30.35(c)(2)) or withdrawal of HUD's approval of [LENDER] as
      an FHA mortgagee. [LENDER]'s compliance-management framework must
      treat Subpart C noncompliance as a HUD-enforcement-tier finding
      rather than merely an insurance-benefit risk.
    type: do
    audit_question: Can [LENDER] evidence that its compliance-management framework treats §203.500 Subpart C noncompliance as a HUD-enforcement-tier exposure (civil money penalty under §30.35(c)(2) or mortgagee-approval withdrawal), and that findings are tracked, root-caused, and remediated accordingly?
    program_review: Does the compliance-management framework treat Subpart C noncompliance as a HUD-enforcement-tier exposure (civil money penalty under §30.35(c)(2) or mortgagee-approval withdrawal), with findings tracked, root-caused, and remediated?
    file_review: Review the findings/issue log and remediation records; confirm Subpart C findings are escalated and remediated as enforcement-tier, not merely insurance-benefit, risk.
    judgment: false
    feeds: []
    workflow_phase: servicing
    owner_role: compliance_officer
    secondary_owner_role: default_servicing_analyst
    cadence: ongoing
    consequence: civil money penalty (including §30.35(c)(2)) or withdrawal of HUD mortgagee approval
    tags:
      - round-c
      - regulator-direct
      - fha
      - servicing
      - civil-money-penalty
      - mortgagee-approval-withdrawal
      - subpart-c
      - promoted
    primary_source:
      tier: 1
      authority: 24 CFR §203.500
      source_class: fha-regulation
      source_url: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-24/section-203.500
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      paragraph_quote: Failure to comply with this subpart shall not be a basis for denial of insurance benefits, but failure to comply will be cause for imposition of a civil money penalty, including a penalty under § 30.35(c)(2), or withdrawal of HUD's approval of a mortgagee.
      drafter_attestation: 'Verbatim 24 CFR §203.500 text from eCFR snapshot 8ab3739e2cccc82b (versioner full-XML API, title 24 as of 2026-09-24); substring-verified. Re-sourced 2026-09-26 (scripts/resegment-cfr.py --in-place) from snapshot 32afd0af85c1c567: the same words, with the prior capture''s rendering artifacts removed (spaces before punctuation, words split at definition links, literal HTML entities, web-page furniture).'
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Verbatim regulatory text (3)

Verbatim provisions from 24 CFR §203.500 — Mortgage servicing generally — each quote is a verified substring of the regulator-published source snapshot, not retyped. Quoted for reference; this is not legal advice. The operational layer (P&P updates, prompts) lives in the regulation update kits.

24 CFR §203.500 — Mandatory compliance with Subpart C servicing practices

This subpart identifies servicing practices of lending institutions that HUD considers acceptable for mortgages insured by HUD. Failure to comply with this subpart shall not be a basis for denial of insurance benefits, but failure to comply will be cause for imposition of a civil money penalty, including a penalty under § 30.35(c)(2), or withdrawal of HUD's approval of a mortgagee. It is the intent of the Department that no mortgagee shall commence foreclosure or acquire title to a property until the requirements of this subpart have been followed.

Source: 24 CFR §203.500 · source URL · snapshot 8ab3739e2cccc82b

24 CFR §203.500 — No foreclosure / title acquisition until Subpart C followed

It is the intent of the Department that no mortgagee shall commence foreclosure or acquire title to a property until the requirements of this subpart have been followed.

Source: 24 CFR §203.500 · source URL · snapshot 8ab3739e2cccc82b

24 CFR §203.500 — Consequence of noncompliance: civil money penalty / mortgagee-approval withdrawal

Failure to comply with this subpart shall not be a basis for denial of insurance benefits, but failure to comply will be cause for imposition of a civil money penalty, including a penalty under § 30.35(c)(2), or withdrawal of HUD's approval of a mortgagee.

Source: 24 CFR §203.500 · source URL · snapshot 8ab3739e2cccc82b

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24 CFR §203.500 — Mortgage servicing generally

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24 CFR §203.500 — Mandatory compliance with Subpart C servicing practices

24 CFR §203.500 — No foreclosure / title acquisition until Subpart C followed

24 CFR §203.500 — Consequence of noncompliance: civil money penalty / mortgagee-approval withdrawal

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