In a previous post I discussed the effects on Second homes and Investment property.
The Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (PSPA), recently executed and effective immediately, impacted the percentage of second homes and investment properties the GSE’s (FNMA and FHLMC) are permitted to purchase from lenders. By way of background, the PSPA is an agreement between the US Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which is the governing body for FNMA & FHLMC.
Also contained within that amendment is a restriction on the percentage of “high risk” loans the agencies are permitted to acquire. A “high risk” loan is defined as a loan that has two (2) of the three (3) characteristics below:
- FICO score < 680.
- DTI greater than 45.00%.
- LTV greater than 90.00%.
The GSE’s have the following limits imposed, over a rolling 52 week period, on what they can acquire with respect to loans deemed “high risk”:
- No more than 6% of purchase transactions
- No more than 3% of refinance transactions
The percentages noted above for “high risk” loans are global to all loans acquired by FHLMC & FNMA and not an individual lender. The second home and investor occupancy percentages ARE specific to EACH lender.
The immediate implementation requirements for both the second home and NOO percentages, as well as the “high risk” percentages, caught the industry by surprise and led to disparate outcomes for lenders and their customers.
SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
- To assist with controlling the percentages of “high risk” loans, it is anticipated that the automated underwriting engines (DU and LPA) will be “adjusted” to consider the high risk factors when returning a decision. This will address the reduction for all lenders throughout the industry in a systematic and consistent manner.
- This is NOT MEANT to imply that all loans that have 2 of the 3 characteristics will no longer receive an approval.
- This DOES alert you that in some instances, you may no longer receive an approval decisions on loans that have these characteristics, that may have been approved in the past.
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