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Preparing to Get Pre-Approved For a Mortgage

Realty Biz

Mortgage pre-approval is an essential step when buying a house. During pre-approval, lenders carefully evaluate your financial information, including income, assets, credit history, and other relevant details. How long it takes for lenders to give mortgage pre-approval can vary from a day to a week.

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It’s Important to Get Your Mortgage Pre-approval Updated in Any Real Estate Market, but Especially This One

Lighter Side of Real Estate

If you’ve been searching for a house for any amount of time, you’re probably well aware of how important it is to get a mortgage pre-approval before you even start looking at houses, or at least as early on in the process as possible. When Should You Update Your Pre-approval? Pre-approvals aren’t good forever.

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Vishal Garg unveils Better’s new strategy as a publicly traded company 

Housing Wire

Flávia Nunes: Better took nearly two years to go public, with Aurora’s shareholders’ merger approval extended three times. In that time, the market, the industry and the consumer changed dramatically. Garg: It took us six years to do $100 billion of refinances and to build an industry leader in refinances.

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Opinion: New LLPA changes represent noble effort, but wrong approach

Housing Wire

But to make matters worse, the new matrix includes a TRID poison pill that could impact regulatory compliance, but more importantly surprise and anger homebuyers as they go through the process of loan approval. 25% – 375% should their debt-to-income ratio drift above 40%.

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Agents fight misconceptions to win deals for military veteran clients

Housing Wire

A lot of the rules have relaxed over the past several years, but people always tend to remember the negative things so that is what has spread throughout the industry.”. We work hard to get our buyer approved at the lowest rate and if they have credit problems we will put them in touch with the right people to get their credit restored.

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Why Can You Pay $2,000 in Rent (Or Any Other Amount) but Not Be Approved for a Mortgage That Costs the Same Amount per Month?

Lighter Side of Real Estate

Unless you come into a windfall of money, most people need to get a mortgage in order to buy a home, so getting a mortgage pre-approval to find out how much a lender will allow you to spend is the first step. How much other debt you have to pay each month. than you thought you could afford.

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Is there racial bias baked into GSE underwriting?

Housing Wire

The story, “The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms,” included statements from fair housing activists who concluded that there is “systemic racism” in the mortgage process. The philosophy was that no credit wasn’t necessarily bad credit and underwriters could make judgement calls in order to approve a loan.