USDA Rural Development · Announcement Fiscal Year 2027 SFH Guaranteed Funds Now Available! (2026-10-06) · Published

USDA SFH Guaranteed Loan Program Fiscal Year 2027 funding now available

Rural Development made FY 2027 funding available for the SFH Guaranteed Loan Program and will obligate pending guarantee requests with conditional commitments over the next 2 business days. After closing and removal of the "contingent upon" condition, lenders may submit a Loan Note Guarantee request through the LLC system.

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Loan impact

From the announcement text · verified

Applies to: USDA Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program loans with a conditional commitment contingent upon appropriation or closed loans awaiting a Loan Note Guarantee request.

Investor
USDA
Programs
USDA
Affected areas
Contracts; Products
Affected documents
Form RD 3555-18/18E Conditional Commitment; Loan Note Guarantee request
Applicability confidence
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Supporting quotes from the announcement
  • affected areas“Over the next 2 business days the Agency will obligate loan guarantee requests which previously received Form RD 3555-18/18E, Conditional Commitment for Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee, contingent upon the availability of an appropriation.”
  • affected areas“Rural Development made Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funding available for Single-Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program.”
  • affected documents“Over the next 2 business days the Agency will obligate loan guarantee requests which previously received Form RD 3555-18/18E, Conditional Commitment for Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee, contingent upon the availability of an appropriation.”
  • affected documents“Once a lender closes a loan and the Agency removes the “contingent upon” condition from the Conditional Commitment, the lender may submit a Loan Note Guarantee request through the Agency’s automated Lender Loan Closing (LLC) system.”

What changed

From the announcement text · Sections Files in Process, Loan Closing
RequirementPreviouslyNow
Obligation of pending guarantee requests with FY 2027 fundsClarifiedSection Files in ProcessNot statedAgency will obligate requests with prior conditional commitments within 2 business days and issue updated Conditional Commitments without the "contingent upon" language
Loan Note Guarantee request submission after closingClarifiedSection Loan ClosingNot statedLender may submit a Loan Note Guarantee request through LLC once the loan is closed and the "contingent upon" condition is removed

What to do

AWACS interpretation · not source language

What to review: No change is mandatory, so first review USDA SFH Guaranteed loans that hold a conditional commitment contingent upon appropriation, or that have closed and are awaiting a Loan Note Guarantee request. The lender may submit the request through the LLC system once the loan is closed and the Agency removes the \"contingent upon\" condition.

QC implications

  • Check that a Loan Note Guarantee request was submitted only after the loan closed and the Agency removed the "contingent upon" condition from the Conditional Commitment.
  • Sample USDA files that had a conditional commitment contingent upon appropriation to confirm the file shows the condition was removed before the request was submitted.

Source and record

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