So what is going on with all the mortgage companies? Either they shutting their doors down or some of them stopped funding loans. For one, it all started with Alt-A mortgage loans and jumbo loans. Alt-A are loans which were made to borrowers whose credit score was not so perfect, that is right below 640 FICO, who were self employed, could not prove their income. Jumbo loans are loans that are above conforming limit of $417,000. Any loan amount that is below $417,000 is considered conforming loan and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government backed companies are purchasers of these loans.
However; as you may have seen on TV, Alt-A loans and jumbo loans are loans that are causing problems as of right now as banks cannot sell these loans to open market, get additional funding to make new loans. So they are stuck. No Wall Street Investors are buying these loans and banks do not know what to do with its portfolios.
Subprime lenders, lenders that only specialized in Alt-A and jumbo loans could not find any investors to buy these loans and therefore liquidated their companies. So know the finger pointing starts!
Who is to blame? Banks for making these loans?...
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