Posts Tagged ‘Fannie Mae’

St Louis Mortgage Lending and In House Financing: New Foreclosure Plan

Monday, January 9th, 2012


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Financing For Customers News: New Foreclosure Plan Means Selling Off


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Big investors are showing interest in an evolving Obama administration plan to sell off foreclosed homes, although the government will have to make the offer sweet enough to coax private funds.

The White House is assessing how best to (more…)

St Louis Lending and Customer Financing: Move Houses Not Mortgages

Sunday, January 8th, 2012


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St. Louis Refinancing Loan and In-House Financing News: Move Houses, Not Mortgages


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Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) said the Obama administration should be focused on helping the private market move through the backlog of foreclosures instead of merely shifting wealth from investors to borrowers in the new refinancing changes.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Finance: Mortgage Servicing Changes

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


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St. Louis Mortgage Refinance and In-House Financing News: Olick Reports Changes to Mortgage Servicing Coming


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Robo-signing, lost paperwork and wrongful evictions have put mortgage servicers under the gun. Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson on Tuesday blamed servicers, in part, for stalling a housing recovery: ‘Homes that should move through the foreclosure process are held up because courts and (more…)

St Louis Commercial Lending and In House Financing: Commercial Loan Delinquencies Down

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011


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St. Louis Commercial Mortgage and Financing For Customers News: MBA Says Commercial and Multifamily Mortgage Delinquency Rates Down
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Commercial/multifamily mortgage delinquency rates among four out of five major investor groups decreased in the second quarter of 2011, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Commercial/Multifamily Delinquency Report. Between (more…)

St Louis Lending and Customer Financing: Fannie and Robo Signing Abuses

Friday, December 2nd, 2011


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St. Louis Mortgage Refinancing and In-House Financing News: Fannie Apparently Knew About Robo-Signing In 2003
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In an announcement released as of late, mortgage financing giant Fannie Mae knew about allegations of improper foreclosure practices by law firms in 2003 but did not act to (more…)

St Louis Loan Modification and Refinance: Record Number of REOs Sold

Monday, May 30th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Lending News: Freddie Mac Sells Record Number of REOs
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Freddie Mac sold roughly 31,000 previously foreclosed and repossessed homes in the first quarter, a new record for the company as both government-sponsored enterprises shed inventory from the end of last year. 

Combined, both Fannie Mae and Freddie hold 218,000 REO properties as of the end of the (more…)

St Louis Home Loan and Financing: Fannie Mae Faces More Losses

Sunday, May 29th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and In-House Financing News: Fannie Mae Declares First Quarter Loss
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Fannie Mae reported net loss of $8.7 billion in the first quarter, including a $2.2 billion dividend payment to the Treasury Department.

The loss narrowed from (more…)

St Louis Home Mortgage and Loan: Mortgage Lending Hard To Get

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011


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St Louis Mortgage Broker and Consumer Lending News: Mortgages Are Cheap… If You Can Get One
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According to the Federal Reserve, nearly a quarter of people who apply for home loans are turned down. The denial rates tell only half the story.

Many potential buyers aren’t even applying for loans because they assume they can’t get one according to St Louis loan experts. 

That shows up in credit scores for loans financed with backing from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The average credit score has risen to (more…)

St Louis Lending and Refinancing: Mortgage Applications Up

Friday, May 13th, 2011


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St Louis Loan and Consumer Lending News: Home Mortgage Applications Appear To Be Up
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The housing market was happy to see that mortgage applications increased 5.3 percent according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 15, 2011. 

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 5.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier according to St Louis mortgage experts.

On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 5.9 percent compared with the previous week. The Refinance (more…)

St Louis Mortgage Broker: 20 Percent Down Payments For Home Loans

Thursday, April 28th, 2011


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St Louis Refinance, In-House Financing and Principal Loan Reduction News: Regulators Push For 20 Percent Down Payments
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The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law enacted last year enabled regulators to define a so-called gold-standard residential mortgage that would be exempt from costly new rules according to St Louis mortgage brokers.

At least three agencies including the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have backed a proposal to require home buyers to put down at least (more…)