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The housing bill recently enacted into law is the most sweeping overhaul of the regulatory environment affecting mortgage lenders in many decades. Fortunately, the bill should help stabilize a beleaguered housing finance sector. But like all changes in laws and regulations, it comes along with many uncertainties.
A key issue for servicers, especially those managing large volumes of adjustable-rate mortgages that are poised to reset at higher payments, will be how well the law's provisions to spur the refinancing of troubled nonprime borrowers into FHA loans plays out. Those provisions are targeted toward "underwater" borrowers, those who owe more on their loans than their homes are currently worth. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the FHA rescue program will finance up to 400,000 loans, or $68 billion of volume. It's a modest portion of those loans at risk of default, but it's enough to help mitigate the number of loans that are migrating toward foreclosure and REO status.
The FHA's foreclosure rescue program requires servicers and investors to cut the ...