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mortgage insurance: FHA MIP vs Conventional PMI - 04/30/11 01:22 PM
FHA recently raised the monthly MIP (mortgage insurance premium) on 30 year loans to 1.15% if you put less than 5% down and 1.1% if you more than 5% down.  This is quite a dramatic change, as it was only a few years ago that it was .5%.   With the cost of mortgage insurance increasing, it might now be time to look at a conventional loan and the advantages of putting a little more down payment so that you can benefit from a lower private monthly mortgage insurance.  The private MI companies have come up with a comparison example.  Take a look:
http://www.homesminneapolis.net/insured-conventional-loan-vs-fha-which-is-better/
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mortgage insurance: PMI Company's ARE Imploding-IF You Need 100% Financing-DO IT NOW-RULES HAVE CHANGED - 02/13/08 05:48 PM
Minneapolis Area Mortgage Broker-Venture Development-Edina Minnesota
Unless you are in the mortgage industry, you probably haven't heard about the Mortgage Insurance Industry is experiencing HUGE losses.  Public company MGIC Investment Corp-symbol MTG just announced today that they lost 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS LAST QUARTER ALONE.  PMI Group-symbol PMI and Radian Group Inc-RDN might be next.  They haven't announced their earnings yet.  Since they are all in the same business it might be a logical inference to assume they will be announcing less than positive news.
What PMI did do this week is send out a letter to mortgage broker clients like myself with a guideline change effective … (0 comments)

 
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