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St Louis Mortgage Refinancing and Lending News: More Loan Modification Options Coming
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Six months after the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced an $11 billion refinancing initiative for these “underwater” borrowers, nearly two dozen lenders have agreed to take part in a new loan modification program.
The FHA program called Short Refi requires major concessions from lenders, which must agree to write off at least 10 percent of the principal balance, and from investors, who, if they own the mortgage, must also agree to the deal.
To qualify, homeowners must be current on their monthly mortgage payments and not already have an FHA home loan.
The size of the new primary loan cannot be more than 97.75 percent of the current value of the property; refinanced loans for homeowners whose properties carry second liens cannot exceed 15 percent of the property value.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which oversees the FHA, said this month that 23 lenders had signed on to the Short Refi program, though it will disclose only the names of the five lenders that have already restructured a total of 44 loans.
They are: Wall Street Mortgage Bankers of Lake Success, New York; 1st Alliance Lending of East Hartford, Connecticut; Nationstar Mortgage of Lewisville, Texas; E Mortgage Management of Haddon Township, New Jersey; and Glacier Bank of Kalispell, Montana.
HUD estimated that 500,000 to 1.5 million borrowers could be eligible for the program.
Even so, it faces challenges in Congress; on Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to end it.
One mortgage expert, John Diiorio, the owner of 1st Alliance Lending, said that big banks were taking part behind the scenes, by referring homeowners to third-party lenders that could restructure their mortgages.
He added that 1st Alliance had “several hundred FHA Short Refi” loans in the pipeline.
Because the FHA announced the program only last September 2010, and because such loans take three to four months from start to finish, Mr. Diiorio said, the number of refinanced loans should increase in coming months.
He said that, on average, 1st Alliance had negotiated a principal reduction of $86,000 on a $256,000 loan, a 33.5 percent cut, to $170,000.
But he said lenders and investors had agreed to reduce principal for only half of the loans he had worked on.
The refinanced borrower, Mr. Diiorio said, had to pay a slightly higher fixed rate, typically 6 or so percent.
But he added that the financial impact was the same as a 5 percent rate on a higher-balance loan of $100,000, with less principal forgiven.
“It seems counter-intuitive,” he said, “but the economics work both for the consumer and for the lender.”
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