Homeowners can pay 3.5 percent on an FHA loan with higher mortgage insurance costs while a down payment of between five and 10
percent on a conforming loan will mean lower PMI payments.
Not exact matches
For instance, data show that mortgage rates can vary between lenders by.25
percent (
conforming) to.50
percent (non-
conforming)
on any given day for the same
loan.
According to HSH.com, interest rates
on 30 - year fixed - rate
loans averaged 4.01
percent for conventional
conforming loans during the week ending May 31, 2013.
If you put down less than 20
percent on a conventional
loan, also known as a
conforming mortgage, your lender will probably ask that you get Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) until you have made two years» worth of payments or your principal balance is reduced to 78
percent of its original amount.
Most of the time, the mortgage
loan rates
on jumbo
loans are about one - quarter to one - half a
percent higher than borrowers pay
on conforming loans, although that isn't always the case.
On the other end of the credit spectrum, Bank of America has created a
loan of up to $ 1 million that requires only 15
percent down from buyers who have had a history of homeownership in the past three years, and are borrowing above the limits for
conforming loans — currently $ 625,500 in the metro Bay Area.
Interest rates
on conforming 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages were unchanged at 4.23
percent last week, while average mortgage rates
on other types of 30 - year
loans MBA track were 0.03 percentage point to 0.04 percentage point higher than the prior week.
Whereas you can obtain a
conforming loan / mortgage with 5 % down and a jumbo
loan with just twenty
percent down, once you exceed the $ 2,000,000 mortgage amount you can expect to have to put more down
on your mortgage.
The new minimum and maximum
loan limits are based
on 65
percent and 175
percent of the
conforming loan limits for Government - Sponsored Enterprises in 2008, which is $ 417,000.
Most real estate investors in smaller properties should expect to put 20
percent down
on conforming loans, due to changes in mortgage insurance restrictions, says Brad Blackwell, Wells Fargo's retail national sales manager for the western United States, providing they have good incomes and good credit scores.
As of late July, lenders were offering jumbo
loans at a typical rate of about 5.5
percent, down from almost 7
percent a year earlier and not too different from what's available for
conforming loans, according to data available
on Bankrate.com.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac increased the
conforming loan limit 8.5
percent on single - family properties from $ 333,700 to $ 359,650, effective Jan. 1.