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Home » What We’re Hearing: Fannie About to Reduce Maximum LTV / Rate Rise Causing the Phones to Stop Ringing? / Arch Capital Wants to be a Player in MI / Cole Taylor Continues to Hire / Waiting for Godot and Sen. Reed’s GSE Bill / Can Ellie Mae Get Sol
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What We’re Hearing: Fannie About to Reduce Maximum LTV / Rate Rise Causing the Phones to Stop Ringing? / Arch Capital Wants to be a Player in MI / Cole Taylor Continues to Hire / Waiting for Godot and Sen. Reed’s GSE Bill / Can Ellie Mae Get Sol

August 16, 2013
Fannie Mae will lower its maximum LTV. Mortgage insurance firms are not happy. Meanwhile, NAMB blames shrinking application volumes on summer vacations.
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