Real estate market

Web portals are as guilty of making extra profit on your loan as any loan originator on the street.  If you search for a loan on the web, you will run into two different types of companies.  One is a list broker.  They are not in the mortgage business.  It is their job to persuade [...]

Now, let me tell you the secret no broker or bank wants you to know.  Almost every loan has at least 2% (or 2 points), and more often than not, 3% in it for the broker or bank as the mark-up/profit. (This is a good time to toss in a little industry lingo).
A point refers [...]

The current definition of jumbo loans depend on the current conforming loan limits. In turn, loan limits will are adjusted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as vary according on the number of units in the subject property. Each unit refers to one legal apartment.
As of January 2000, the maximum loan [...]

A jumbo loan is any loan that exceeds conforming guidelines. Since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s charter are focused on servicing America’s low, moderate and middle income home buyers, loan amount limits filter high-income borrowers. FHA loans institute even lower loan amount limits than does Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As of January 2000, [...]

The second mortgage market has been an increasingly active industry during the past two decades, especially as homeowners discover their uses and cost-effectiveness. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac normally do not purchase home equity loans and home equity lines of credit. In fact, credit lines are usually either portfolio, with the originating lender keeping [...]

Whereas there may be dozens of conforming loan programs available at any given time, there are probably thousands of different non-conforming programs. Non-conforming lenders design loans for specific conforming guideline restrictions–or rather for the borrowers and situations that fail to meet those conforming restrictions. Most non-conforming programs tend to fall within the following six [...]

Mortgage loans can normally be categorized according to three categories, depending on how they are handled by the lender after closing:
● Portfolio
● Conforming
● Non-conforming
A portfolio loan is kept by the lender in its “portfolio” rather than sold to the secondary mortgage market. [...]