Traditional lenders will look for the following in order to be approved for
a prime quality mortgage after filing a consumer proposal:
Not exact matches
The toxic securitized
mortgage assets were not in the Main Street banks and savings and loans; these institutions owned mostly
prime quality whole loans and could have bled down the modest bad debt they did have over time from enhanced loan loss reserves.
«Concerning residential real estate loans, between about 70 percent and 80 percent of domestic respondents expect the
quality of their
prime, nontraditional, and subprime residential
mortgage loans, as well as of their revolving home equity loans, to deteriorate in 2008.
Prime mortgages meet the
quality standards set forth by Fannie Mae (the Federal National
Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation), the two government - sponsored enterprises that provide a secondary market in home
mortgages by purchasing loans from originating lenders.
Fannie Mae lobbies for lower
mortgage standards so they can earn more income which
primes the market for lower
quality mortgages.