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For Chapter 13 bankruptcy, there is a two-year waiting period from the discharge date and a four-year waiting period from the dismissal date. The waiting period also depends on the type of loan ...
Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The waiting periods following a Chapter 13 bankruptcy are, thankfully, shorter, “because the borrower has already taken time to improve their financial situation through ...
The disadvantage of filing for personal bankruptcy is that, under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a record of this stays on the individual's credit report for up to 7 years (up to 10 years for Chapter 7); [5] still, it is possible to obtain new debt or credit (cards, auto, or consumer loans) after only 12–24 months, and a new FHA mortgage loan just 25 months after discharge, and Fannie Mae ...
As of March 31, 2009, seriously delinquent loans accounted for 2.3% of single-family mortgages owned or guaranteed for Freddie Mac and 3.2% for Fannie Mae. While those are historically high levels, they compare favorably to industry averages of 4.7% for all prime loans, 7.2% for all single-family mortgages, 24.9% for all subprime mortgages, and ...
[26] [91] Lending standards deteriorated particularly between 2004 and 2007, as the government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) mortgage market share (i.e. the share of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which specialized in conventional, conforming, non-subprime mortgages) declined and private securitizers share grew, rising to more than half of mortgage ...
The conforming loan limit for mortgages backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will rise by 5.2% next year to over $800,000, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Tuesday. Freddie Mac, Fannie ...
"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]
The lender does not have to adhere to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) standards used by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that back and buy most ...