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Commitment rates are the rates at which mortgage loans can be sold to another entity, such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or other lenders. The Fannie Mae Commitment Rate is the rate that Fannie requires for a par-priced loan. From the commitment rate, Fannie extracts its guarantee fee (which has tended to average around 19bp).
In June 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that two former CEOs of Fannie Mae, James A. Johnson and Franklin Raines, had received loans below market rate from Countrywide Financial. Fannie Mae was the biggest buyer of Countrywide's mortgages. [78]
A note regarding mortgage rate data available for the 1990s: FRED data on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages starts in August 1991, so 1990 and part of 1991 are not factored into this analysis.
1970s mortgage rate trends. The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage started the decade at about 7.5 percent in 1971 (the earliest year for which data is available), according to Freddie Mac.
Fannie Mae, which was originally restricted to purchasing Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration (VA) mortgages (Fannie Mae was permitted to deal in conventional mortgages in 1970), and; Ginnie Mae, formerly the Government National Mortgage Association, which originally only provided insurance for bonds issued by FHA and VA ...
After reaching a post-pandemic high of 7.8% last fall, the average 30-year mortgage rate is now expected to end the year below 6%, according to analysts at Fannie Mae.
Low-doc loans carry a higher interest rate and were theoretically available only to borrowers with excellent credit and additional income that may be hard to document (e.g. self-employment income). As of July 2010, no-doc loans were reportedly still being offered, but more selectively and with high down payment requirements (e.g., 40%).
Malaysia's central bank cut its key interest rate to the lowest in 10 years on Tuesday, as it aimed to soften the blow from the coronavirus oubreak on the country's exports and tourism. Bank ...