The past five years has witnessed the institutionalization of sub-prime lending, with the locus of sub-prime loans shifting from small, independent lenders to large mortgage subsidiaries of banks (particularly national banks). Investment banks and their affiliates increasingly are not only underwriting sub-prime securitizations but originating loans in sub-prime loan pools as well.Because sub-prime loans are [...]
Today, there are many competitors in the mortgage business, and predictably there are also so many offers for the borrowers. To woe the borrowers there are many loan programs available in the market. But what the borrower has to keep in mind is that he should never fall into these loan traps, and the important [...]
Subprime lenders are providing first mortgages, second mortgages and home equity loans to those who don’t qualify for conventional financing. Many of the more than 19,000 mortgage lenders in the U.S. offer some form of subprime mortgages.Subprime borrowers are people with a FICO score of 620 or lower. In fact, the “sweet spot” for the [...]
