Sentences with phrase «mortgages after the housing crisis»

It's estimated that millions of Americans missed out on the chance to save money by refinancing their mortgages after the housing crisis.

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After a slow and steady recovery following the housing crisis of 2008, Leibowitz explains that American consumers generally had fewer problems with their mortgages, better employment prospects, and greater access to credit, which made them less likely to file.

The bank said it had agreed to settle the lawsuit with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) after being accused of mis - selling $ 32 billion of mortgage - backed securities before the global financial crisis.

As a result, first - time buyers who use the FHA loan program will continue to pay the elevated mortgage insurance levels put in place after the housing crisis.

Jumbo mortgages became scarce after the housing crisis.

The funding is awarded from mortgage settlements the attorney general's office made with big banks after the housing crisis.

Jumbo mortgages became scarce after the housing crisis.

In recent years, the reverse mortgage market has once again become healthy, after experiencing a brief fallout during the housing crisis of 2006.

Trump's executive order, signed within hours of his inauguration, kept the cost of government - backed mortgage insurance at the elevated level put in place after the housing crisis.

ARMs fell to around 3 % of total application volume after the housing crisis, as a result of being labeled a «high - risk» mortgage product.

In an effort to stabilize the mortgage market after the housing crisis, lending has become a constantly evolving practice, where old rules are thrown out and new ones - often aimed at protecting the consumer - are put in, such as the rules recently enacted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

After the housing crisis, many home owners found their monthly payments increasing dramatically as a result of their adjustable - rate mortgage resetting.

First enacted in 2007 after the housing crisis, the mortgage debt forgiveness exclusion provides substantial tax relief for families whose principal residence has been foreclosed.

Freddie Mac and rival Fannie Mae have been stuck with a bevy of soured mortgages, bought out of bonds they guaranteed, after a surge in defaults amid the U.S. housing crisis.

After the 2007 housing crisis, more than a quarter of all Las Vegas mortgages were «underwater», which means homeowners owed at least 125 % more than the actual market value of their homes.