Posted on Saturday, January 11, 2014
Once upon a time in the world of mortgage underwriting things like character, income, debt to income, per cent down payments and oh yes collateral mattered a lot. Yours truly once sat at a retail bank branch and among other things processed mortgage application – before running off to graduate school. Guess what. Those days came back to life yesterday Friday, January 10 – that is the date new national mortgage underwriting rules went into place. If you would like to know the sticky details see a nice article by CNN at:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/10/real_estate/mortgage-rules/index.html?iid=Lead
The new rules are not a bad thing. New rules (I like to think of them as old rules returned) will help prevent another melt down. The key word being help. We are still dependent on honesty but I think we actually have a lot of that going on. There are a few downsides but I welcome them in order to bring some sanity back to lending.
The first little downer will be slower processing times and more paperwork. Underwriters should still able to close a financed real estate transaction in ninety days although a recent portfolio loan went all the way to the wire plus a few days for one of our clients last week.
The other stumbler is we may see fewer qualified buyers but oh well, as we discovered over the last few years, some folks should not be buying houses, or second and third houses, right?
Among the many positive results of the new rules may be more than just a safer market. If we see quality back in the portfolios could we also see the return of the secondary mortgage market – you know where banks sell their paper? Oh oh, this is where it went so wrong before. But …. if the quality is good there will be more money for mortgages, and an increased supply of investor money should keep rates lower, and competition with free-flowing funds is a good thing, Right?
We will see. Hopefully tighter rules mean better quality, safer markets and more money for lending, with slightly fewer qualified buyers and some increased paper work and processing times. If this is the end result I am all for it.
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