Fed Purchases Of Mortgage Backed Securities To End
The Federal Reserve Bank will discontinue buying mortgage backed securities in March 2010. The Federal Reserve has been actively supporting the treasury and mortgage markets with purchases of treasuries and mortgage backed securities since fall 2008. This could have an impact on the mortgage climate for the foreseeable future. A Morgan Stanley chief economist feels [...]
Unemployed Homeowners Might Receive Assistance
Advocacy groups are meeting with officials from Housing and Urban Development, the Treasury Department and the White House Economic Council. These groups hope officials will take part in an existing $75 billion program to help homeowners modify mortgages and implement a program that would help the jobless stay in their homes. Spearheading this program is [...]
Lenders Resist Making Home Affordable
The Treasury Department announced a total of 31,382 homeowners have received a permanent home loan modification since details of the program were announced in March. 4% of homeowners whose home loans were re-worked through the Making Home Affordable Program have successfully completed the trial period to receive permanent modifications. There are currently more than 728,000 [...]
Reverse Mortgage Option Gaining Momentum, Seniors at Risk
More seniors are applying for reverse mortgages than ever before. This trend is gaining momentum as seniors are finding their retirement nest egg disappearing. Tim McDonald, a reverse mortgage specialist for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, says, “the aging population is becoming more and more aware of reverse mortgages as a way to stay in [...]
FHA Planning Stricter Loan Requirements
The Federal Housing Administration is taking the first steps toward stricter loan requirements. The FHA plans to “hold lenders accountable for their origination quality and compliance with FHA policy”. These planned changes could put more pressure on an already struggling housing market. Their plan is designed to limit the risks to the FHA loan portfolio, [...]
Operation Stolen Hope Strikes a Blow
Fraudulent companies are are preying on homeowners across the country. Companies misrepresenting themselves as being affiliated with government programs, in an effort to take advantage of homeowners afraid of losing their homes, are illegally charging up-front fees ranging from $1,500 to $7,000. In many cases officials have reported that these companies falsely claim to also [...]
Mortgage Rates Drop as Unemployment Rises
According to Freddie Mac, the average rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage, as reported on Nov. 12, is now at 4.83%, perilously close to the all time low of 4.71% set back in April of this year. For those who can afford higher payments, a 15 year fixed rate mortgages now average 4.32%, [...]
Permanent Loan Modifications Difficult To Achieve
The Making Home Affordable Program has begun trial modifications for more than 650,000 eligible borrowers since being launched in February. According to data released by the Treasury Department, 1 in 5 eligible homeowners has enrolled in the program. Almost 900,000 borrowers have been offered trial modification plans and servicers have distributed over 2 million request [...]
Strategic Mortgage Defaults A Cause For Concern
A new report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) titled “Why servicer’s foreclose, when they should modify, and other puzzles of servicer behavior”, says the number of borrowers expected to walk away from their homes is projected to increase. This is known as strategic default, when a borrower decides to stop making payments on [...]
Making Home Affordable?
A new study out from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston concluded that “lenders expect to recover more from foreclosure than from a modified loan”. The reason? Only about 30% of homeowners that fall behind on their mortgage payments are able to start paying again without lender intervention. When loans are modified, 30% to 45% [...]
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