Rates are climbing for both Investment and Vacation Home Mortgages
Earlier this month both Fannie and Freddie announced new limits on loans secured by second homes (vacation properties) and Investment properties. The Treasury Department along with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) imposed additional risk criteria to these loan types and included a 7% limit for both second home and investment mortgages. (Effectively they want to see 93+% as primary residences)
The initial Mortgagee letter puts some strict requirements for automated underwriting findings. While not specifically mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if we see DU and LP tighten up making it harder to get automated approvals on marginal loans.
The industry as a whole expects to see significant changes to pricing on these loans already with additional Loan Level Price adjustments you can expect to see rates increase at least .25-.375% more in rate than we have seen in the past.
Previously we have had no add on at all for a secondary residence and investment properties were typically 0.5%- 0.75% higher in rate than a primary residence. The new LLPA will increase the add-ons that were already there, and in some cases we will see loans that will require points where the did not have points in the past.
The industry had very little notice on this move and it will effect new loans immediately since it is based on loan deliveries as of April 1, 2021.
It would be prudent to let your buyers be aware of this change so they are not blindsided by higher than anticipated rates and or points than they anticipated.
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Robert Rauf
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