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Lender and Lender guidlines update... trend or anomaly?

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Mortgage and Lending with Century 21 Mortgage

Will it ever stop?  Just got an e-mail forwarded to me from my branch manager.  CitiMortgage just sent out some announcements.  Nothing too out of the ordinary:

Discontinued Programs:

  • Alt-A Non-Agency 
  • NINA (No Income, No Assets)
  • NIVA (No Income, Verified Assets)
  • SISA restricted to primary residence and limited LTV

Most of the changes were following suit to what everyone else was going - which was eliminating or dramatically modifying their Alt-A product line.  Further, the pricing on Alt-A loans has just been horrible.

However, the thing that really stuck out in my mind was that they were adding 100 basis points to the Home Possible Mortgage.  Basically anything outside of their conforming product line was jumping significantly higher in pricing.

Anyone else seeing similar comments?  I'm assuming this trend will be to most lenders using these product types, but some of my account executives are better than others at keeping me up to speed.

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Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL
Joe Manausa Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Real Estate
Ouch.
Aug 11, 2007 12:51 AM
Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL
Joe Manausa Real Estate - Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee Real Estate
Hey Joe, can you do a post explaining (to us simpletons out here) exactly what Alt-A means?
Aug 13, 2007 09:20 PM