Without changes to the calculation of fees and points in determining whether a loan is a QM or not, many borrowers will no longer qualify for a QM loan or have the choices in mortgage finance they have even in today's
already tight credit market.
Not exact matches
Raymond J. Keating, chief economist at the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, says the regulations risk choking off an
already -
tight credit market.
For
credit markets, default rates are low, but extraordinarily
tight credit spreads largely
already reflect that fact.
In other words, under a narrow QM definition, lenders would further restrict home mortgage
credit in what is
already a
tight lending environment because they would be fearful of the severe penalties that would be imposed if they failed to satisfy the ability - to - repay requirement under the more uncertain standards that would apply in the non-QM
market.