This fall will mark – unless there’s divine intervention or a Kumbaya moment in Washington – the ninth anniversary of the federal takeover of Fannie and Freddie.
The VA panel presented several “egregious loan” scenarios involving reviews of several mortgages from 2016 in which lenders were required to sign indemnification agreements.
The plan to raise the standard has been met with hostility by many in the residential real estate industry, said Matthew Pointon, an economist at Capital Economics.