Countrywide Home Loans Inc., Calabasas, Calif., has announced a new program to streamline home loan applications.Countrywide's Fast and Easy Loan for single-family, detached homes allows homebuyers with solid credit histories and homeowners who want to refinance to apply for a loan without providing documentation of income or assets. To apply, a borrower provides only basic information on salary, financial assets, and debts (no documentation necessary); authorizes Countrywide to verify credit information; and provides personal identification prior to loan closing. The product is a conforming, fixed-rate loan available for terms of 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years. It requires a at least a 10% downpayment.
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The latest government-sponsored enterprise changes include a more flexible sampling and a longer maximum term for some manufactured housing loans, respectively.
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The product preserves borrower's first mortgage, and its potentially lower mortgage rate, without requiring the new monthly payments of a traditional HELOC, FOA says.
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The White House's proposed 2027 budget would slash funding to the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, the latest in an ongoing campaign from the Trump administration to dismantle the politically popular program.
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Mortgage rates rising nearly 40 basis points from early-year lows have pushed some buyers out of the market, even as inventory and affordability remain better than a year ago, ICE Mortgage Technology found.
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Lawsuits and probes are ramping up, and some courts have broadened the lending law's statute of limitations, said Bradley Partner Jonathan Kolodziej.
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New jobs in health care largely drove the gains, while the federal workforce and finance continued to shrink.
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