The announcement also indicated a change later this year to mortgages for
conventional borrowers with financing that is bulk - insured.
The government has made changes to its Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) allowing periods of temporary forbearance and / or modification of mortgage terms for unemployed homeowners; the Department of Housing and Urban Development has also proposed a TARP - funded program to help
underwater conventional borrowers qualify for FHA refinance mortgages starting in the fall of 2010.
This makes no sense,
since conventional borrowers with good credit do not need the FHASecure program, they can simply get regular FHA financing.
VA borrowers with less than perfect credit may able get the same kind of rates
as conventional borrowers with higher credit scores.
Even conventional borrowers with ARM and hybrid mortgages could face a crunch, especially those who stretched their finances to buy a home, those who took advantage of loose lending standards by taking out big loans without showing documented proof they could afford it, and those whose home values have plummeted below the mortgage amount.
Here's a clue: just a few hundred delinquent
conventional borrowers per month have been able to refinance with the FHA Secure program.
For assistance with your high ratio mortgage or to understand financing options
for conventional borrowers — ask your Mortgage Broker.
Merely refinancing with FHA loans — loans which have been absolutely available to
conventional borrowers with good credit for decades — does not meet the announced purpose of helping people who face foreclosure.
First,
a conventional borrower would not have a zero - down option.
For
conventional borrowers, PMI drops off after you've established 20 percent equity in your home.
HUD's own FHA Outlook reports show that only a few hundred delinquent
conventional borrowers have been able to get FHA financing.
But HUD — undeterred by reality — simply says that FHASecure (or FHA Secure as it is sometimes known) now includes
ALL conventional borrowers who use FHA financing.
He says FHASecure has been used for refinancing by more than 76,000
conventional borrowers.
As to the FHASecure program, it allowed just 3,794 delinquent
conventional borrowers to refinance with FHA loans in fiscal 2008.
He certainly does not say, as HUD figures show, that only 171 delinquent
conventional borrowers were able to refinance with FHA financing in the first 15 days of December.
Delinquent
conventional borrowers — the folks HUD was supposed to save from foreclosure and bankruptcy with the FHASecure program — continued to be shunned.
We now know that only a few hundred delinquent
conventional borrowers have actually been refinanced through the FHA.
So far, in the fiscal year that began October 1st, HUD reports that 6,561 applications from delinquent
conventional borrowers have been received — but far - fewer have actually resulted in new loans.
During the same period only 3,794 delinquent
conventional borrowers were able to refinance with FHA loans.
Plainly the FHASecure program was NOT for
all conventional borrowers who were refinancing with FHA loans.
There's also a quirk when it comes to the Cash - Out for
conventional borrowers: They don't actually have to take out any cash.
In fiscal 2008 only 3,794 delinquent
conventional borrowers were able to refinance with FHA loans — that's about 76 borrowers per state over the course of 12 months.
Conventional borrowers can put verified gift funds toward a down payment or closing costs with some restrictions.
A conventional borrower who puts down 5 percent has a 95 percent loan - to - value ratio.
Let's assume you're
a conventional borrower with a $ 200,000 loan.
For fiscal 2008, just 3,794 delinquent
conventional borrowers were able to refinance with FHA loans.
While it's true that FHA borrowers generally have less invested in their homes due to low down payments, the housing crisis has seen home values in some areas tumble to the extent that
conventional borrowers who started off with 20 percent home equity have seen it disappear.
For the same home,
a conventional borrower might need a 20 percent down payment.
Effective November 30th,
all conventional borrowers are required to qualify at the benchmark rate (currently 4.64 percent) and a maximum of 25 year amortization for all mortgage terms if the lender is insuring the mortgage.
Conventional borrowers with good credit, of course, don't need the FHASecure program.
HUD's solution to the problem of failed numbers (and thus the problem of failed expections — remember it was President Bush who accounced the FHASecure program from the White House) has been to change the definition of the program to include
every conventional borrower with a lung who uses FHA financing rather than only deliquent conventional borrowers.