Fannie Mae has announced some loan level price adjustments that will effect most conforming loans. Your credit score is going to play a much larger impact than it ever has in the past on your mortgage rate. This is not just going to be in effect on the "exotic" mortgages, it applies to the plain Jane 30 year fixed among others! Check out these changes that are going in to effect on loans today!
LTV> 70% & FICO < 620 - Charge of 2.00 points
LTV> 70% & FICO 620-639 - Charge of 1.75 points
LTV> 70% & FICO 640-659 - Charge of 1.25 points
LTV> 70% & FICO 660-679 - Charge of 0.75 points
What does this mean? Well to give you a real quote of a rate for your new loan, you will need to have the credit score, and even those with decent credit will be seeing a charge. That is going to be the hard part until that is a more commonly accepted fact in the market.
So let's say for example a customer is looking at a $200,000 loan for 90% of the purchase of their new house, and they have a 650 mid credit score. They are going to pay $2500 at closing, or they may see their rate be .375% higher, or costing them about $60 more monthly.
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