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Fannie Mae has quietly scrapped a plan that could have saved Americans thousands of dollars in housing costs, according to multiple reports. With the objective of making housing more affordable ...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) offers mortgages with a minimum down payment of 3.5% — but, unlike Fannie Mae, there’s a mandatory self-sufficiency test for those buying 3-4 unit ...
Consumers are braced for high prices — more than 40% of Fannie Mae's survey participants expect home prices to increase over the next 12 months, compared to 37% earlier this year.
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.
On January 23, 2017, Fannie Mae funded $1 billion of debt to Invitation Homes as back-up money; four years prior, Fannie stopped another government-sponsored entity buying distressed homes, and Fannie's acquisition with the Blackstone entity was the first time in history it backstopped a single-family house landlord company. [11]
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage guarantors linked to the federal government, will back mortgages up to $806,500 starting in 2025, their regulator said Tuesday. That's an increase of 5.2% ...
Over the past several years, use of "automated underwriting" statistical models has reduced the amount of documentation required from many borrowers. Such automated underwriting engines include Freddie Mac's "Loan Product Advisor" (fka "Loan Prospector") and Fannie Mae's "Desktop Underwriter". For borrowers who have excellent credit and very ...
The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index increased 0.4 points last month to 75 points. The index has risen 10.7 points, or more than 16%, in the last year. ... The percentage of consumers who ...