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Effective Date: Adjustable Rate Mortgages: Transitioning From LIBOR to Alternate Indices

AGENCY:

Office of Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

ACTION:

Final rule.

SUMMARY:

HUD is removing the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) as an approved index for adjustable interest rate mortgages (ARMs), and replacing LIBOR with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) as a Secretary-approved index for newly originated forward ARMs. HUD is also codifying its removal of LIBOR and approval of SOFR as an index for newly-originated Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM or reverse mortgage) ARMs. In addition, HUD is establishing a spread-adjusted SOFR index as the Secretary-approved replacement index to transition existing forward and HECM ARMs off LIBOR. HUD is also making clarifying changes to its HECM Monthly ARM regulation and establishing a lifetime adjustment cap for monthly adjustable rate HECMs. This final rule adopts HUD’s October 19, 2022, proposed rule with minor changes.

DATES:

Effective date: March 31, 2023.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/01/2023-03952/adjustable-rate-mortgages-transitioning-from-libor-to-alternate-indices

  • March 31, 2023
  • Time: All Day