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FHFA Weighing HARP Extension, Won’t Rule Out Program Changes

March 27, 2015
It’s still unclear whether the Home Affordable Refinance Program, set to expire in December, will be extended and if eligibility requirements will be altered. During remarks at a JPMorgan conference in March, Bob Ryan, special advisor to Mel Watt, Federal Housing Finance Agency director, said that a decision needs to be made in the coming months. HARP, introduced in 2009 as a way for borrowers with little or no home equity to refinance mortgages into affordable payments, was originally set to expire at the end of 2013 but was extended through this year. Close to 3.3 million loans were refinanced through HARP since it began in 2009, and as of September 2014 there were...
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