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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's (the GSE's) low downpayment loans are apparently beginning to cause some pain for FHA lending. Black Knight's Mortgage Monitor report, its monthly summary of mortgage performance data, notes that low-down-payment originations, which they define as loans with downpayments below 10 percent, currently account for nearly 40 percent of all purchase originations and 1.5 million borrowers have closed on such loans in the last 12 months, a seven-year high. Low down-payment loans have historically been the purview of FHA and VA. FHA will loan 97 percent of the purchase price with mortgage insurance, while VA will guarantee up to a loan-to-value (LTV) ratio of 100 percent for an eligible borrower. The GSE's announced reintroduced a program in late 2014 that would allow as
Housing News
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's (the GSE's) low downpayment loans are apparently beginning to cause some pain for FHA lending. Black Knight's Mortgage Monitor report, its monthly summary of mortgage performance data, notes that low-down-payment originat... (read more)
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Housing News
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CoreLogic says conditions in the mortgage market are once again fertile ground for mortgage fraud . The company's National Fraud Risk Index hit a new high of 132 in the first quarter of this year versus 113 in the first quarter of 2016 and 122 in the... (read more)
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Rob Chrisman
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Hard to believe that yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of American Home Mortgage’s bankruptcy filing. Many years ago, Angelo Mozilo warned our industry that liquidity problems could bring a company to its knees quicker than anything else... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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Last week's NFP was eerily predictable. Either that, or I got lucky.
My thought was that the market had been fairly range-bound and especially disinterested in breaking below the 2.21/2.22% range following Draghi's late June tapering ... (read more)
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Mortgage Rate Watch
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While it was far from a dramatic move mortgage rates ticked slightly higher after today's Employment Situation data, otherwise known simply as "the jobs report" or NFP (due to its headline component: nonfarm payrolls). On average, over time, NFP is t... (read more)
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MBS Commentary
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The week began on Tuesday, for all intents and purposes. July's "month-end" trading generally took place by last Friday and Monday was left as a mere afterthought. Yields fell nicely on Tuesday as "new month" trades unwound July's month... (read more)
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consumerfinancemonitor.com
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