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Buyers can use seller's points to pay for prepaid costs, mortgage interest or temporary rate buydowns. [3] This means that if you have money in savings that you must retain, you could ask the seller to pay for a 1 to 2 percent interest rate reduction for a year or prepay your interest, homeowner’s association fees or homeowner’s insurance for a set period.
1992: Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to devote a percentage of their lending to support affordable housing increasing their pooling and selling of such loans as securities; Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) created to oversee them.
The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
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In slow real estate markets, sellers can get a little creative when trying to sell their homes. Curb appeal, white carpet, new bathrooms ... you name it. Anything to get the property moving.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Basics Fannie Mae was created in 1938 as the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), a financial organization that was owned by the government.
Fannie Mae, however, is converted into a stand-alone corporation, a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE). 1970 : Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ) is created by an act of Congress as a government-sponsored enterprise to buy mortgages from the Thrift/savings and loan industry; it is owned by the industry itself (until 1989)
"Over the past decade Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have reduced required down payments on loans that they purchase in the secondary market. Those requirements have declined from 10% to 5% to 3% and in the past few months Fannie Mae announced that it would follow Freddie Mac's recent move into the 0% down payment mortgage market." [153]