Tag: underwater mortgage

Top 9 HARP Refinance Myths for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Home Loans

With over 2.9 million homeowners refinancing with the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), there are still many people that are not taking advantage by refinancing their homes. There is a variety of reasons in which these homeowners are choosing not to drop their home loan rates with a mortgage refinance. Many of these reasons are… Read more »

HARP Refinancing Beat 2012 Estimates

HARP refinancing beat 2012 estimates with nearly 1.1 million loans closed last year.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac released a report for the Federal Housing Finance Agency confirming last year totaled nearly half of the 2.2 million loans completed since the HARP program was announced in 2009.The majority of homes were primary residences with 1.89 million… Read more »

HARP 3.0 | Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act

The Home Affordable Refinance Program or HARP has been utilized by many homeowners who were underwater on their mortgage. It allowed them to refinance their home regardless of the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio in most circumstances. Recently, two U.S.Senators reintroduced a bill that would extend the guidelines and reduce fees even more. The new bill was… Read more »

FHA Streamline Refinance Changes

I’m sure I don’t really need to go over the drastic changes our housing market has witnessed over the past few years so I’ll just limit this blog to the ever expanding hope on the horizon for homeowners. At least for those of you who have found yourselves in quite a sticky situation in regards… Read more »

FHA Streamline Refinance Update

It seems the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is making its mortgage program (FHA Streamline Refinance) even more affordable. Allowing for hundreds of thousands of additional homeowners to reap the awesome benefits of today’s low mortgage rates. Their goal is to reduce the mortgage fees and mortgage insurances to all homeowner’s that qualifies. These lower fees… Read more »