Fannie/Freddie Lowering Underwriting Barriers; Rates Break Streak; MBA Calls for ‘Reset’

Fannie/Freddie Lowering Underwriting Barriers; Rates Break Streak; MBA Calls for ‘Reset’

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each announced what appear to be essentially identical changes in their loan underwriting programs - Fannie calls its new offering "Day 1 Certainty" while Freddie was less poetic, referring simply to new capabilities added to its Loan Advisor Suite. Fannie Mae President and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Mayopoulos, described Day 1 Certainty today as a way to give lenders "freedom from representations and warranties and greater speed and simplicity when delivering loans to Fannie Mae." He said this will help transform the way lenders do business by moving a paper-based process to an automated one through the company's underwriting software. We assume there are technical differences in the changes to Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter and Collateral Underwriter and Freddie