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2. Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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   The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.

3. $3 trillion could be injected into the U.S. economy without ...

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   Letting Freddie Mac do this for home equity loans could start putting $1 trillion into consumers' wallets as soon as this summer and $2 trillion by the autumn, Whitney estimated.

4. Conforming loan - Wikipedia

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   This is because both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac only buy loans that are conforming, to repackage into the secondary market, making the demand for a non-conforming loan much less. By virtue of the laws of supply and demand, then, it is harder for lenders to sell the loans, thus it would cost more to the consumers (typically 1/4 to 1/2 of a percent.)

5. The Fed just cut interest rates. Time to tap your home equity?

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   As of Sept. 18, the average home equity loan rate is 8.49 percent, while the average HELOC rate is 9.25 percent. And if you borrow a substantial, five-figure sum — the minimum that many lenders ...

6. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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   "Over the past decade Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have reduced required down payments on loans that they purchase in the secondary market. Those requirements have declined from 10% to 5% to 3% and in the past few months Fannie Mae announced that it would follow Freddie Mac's recent move into the 0% down payment mortgage market." [153]

7. Should you use a HELOC to pay off your mortgage? - AOL

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   However, using a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to do so has limitations. First of all, lenders typically only allow you to borrow up to 80 percent (sometimes 85 percent) of your equity in ...