The new Good Faith Estimate makes its debut January 1, 2010.
Expanded from 1page to 3, the legislators responsible for the new Good Faith Estimate want it to be simpler for homeowners and home buyers to understand than the former version.
By most accounts, Congress will meet this goal.
The new Good Faith...
According to the Freddie Mac weekly mortgage rate survey, the relative cost of a 5-year ARM is dropping versus its 30-year fixed-rate cousin.
During the first 5 months of 2009, the products ran neck-and-neck. Today, they’re a half-percent apart.
On a $200,000 home loan, that’s a difference...
Simple!
Refinance Your Mortgage for Rate and Payment Reductions
Homeowners refinance for different reasons, but the process of refinancing a mortgage should result in some benefit to the homeowner. A borrower may choose to refinance to obtain a lower interest rate and a lower monthly payment, or change the...
You’ve probably heard of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, but have you heard of social lending sites? Over the past few years, several websites have sprung up that combine features of the omnipresent social networking sites, and commerce sites like eBay®. These sites allow...
In the 1960s, Fair Isaac Corporation started working on a system lenders could use to evaluate the likelihood of receiving repayment on loans. Prior to that, it was really a matter of trusting an individual to be a “man of his word,” so to speak. Fair Isaac sought to take human error out of the...
