In a small but notable victory for consumers and REALTORS ®, federal banking regulators pushed back to Aug. 1 from June 10 the deadline for public comment on their controversial rule to define a safe,
qualified residential mortgage as one with at least 20 percent down, among other strict underwriting criteria.
In a letter in December to the six banking regulators, NAR President Ron Phipps said defining
a qualified residential mortgage as something more than what's required by the secondary mortgage market entities and government backers would make financing, already too hard to get for even creditworthy borrowers, too costly.
Not exact matches
First National — Canada's largest non-bank
mortgage lender, originating $ 22 billion in loans each year — reacted swiftly, announcing Tuesday that Morneau's moves will impact about 41 % of its insured
residential mortgages and that it anticipates a drop of
as much
as 10 % in originations of this kind, because its loans will no longer
qualify for insurance.
The Bank will accept all RMBS
as collateral, however it will only provide value for prime full - doc
residential insurable
mortgages and similarly
qualified low - doc
mortgages comprising up to 10 per cent of the value of the security.
As HUD stated in their release, they will not «insure a single - family mortgage or guarantee a single - family residential loan that is not a qualified mortgage, as defined by HUD.&raqu
As HUD stated in their release, they will not «insure a single - family
mortgage or guarantee a single - family
residential loan that is not a
qualified mortgage,
as defined by HUD.&raqu
as defined by HUD.»
This policy would require a 10 percent or other minimum down payment on home loans before the federal government will label them «safe»
as «
qualified residential mortgages.»
While construction loans or bridge financing for
residential new - builds
qualify as residential mortgages under the Income Tax Act, from a risk perspective, these loans are riskier.
Think of the
qualified residential mortgage (QRM)
as an extension of the
qualified mortgage (QM).
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That «
qualified residential mortgage» provision exempts lenders from having to retain 5 percent of their securitized home
mortgage loans
as a risk - retention measure.
The new agency would focus on the securitization of «
qualified residential mortgage» loans, but those loans wouldn't be determined based on the amount of the down payment the borrower puts up,
as banking regulators have proposed and which NAR opposes.
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As a result, proposed increases in downpayment requirements for
qualified residential mortgages and for loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will likely limit the pool of minority households able to secure financing.
Risk Retention Increases:
As of December 24th, private lenders must retain at least 5 percent credit risk unless the loans meet criteria for
qualified residential mortgages.
«The agencies are proposing to broaden and simplify the scope of the QRM exemption from the original proposal and define «
qualified residential mortgage» to mean «
qualified mortgage»
as defined in section 129C of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA).»
As if there are not enough acronyms in the
mortgage industry, the federal government has moved forward in coining a new one, QRM, this being the acronym for the newly defined Qualified Residential M
mortgage industry, the federal government has moved forward in coining a new one, QRM, this being the acronym for the newly defined
Qualified Residential MortgageMortgage.
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But now,
as regulators write the rules for the Wall Street reform law, there are questions about whether the hard - won exemption for so - called «
qualified residential mortgages» will be
as effective at keeping markets liquid.