‘Extremely Rigid’ QRM Rule Would Keep U.S. Entrenched in Market, Private Capital Sidelined
March 31, 2011
The new interagency risk-retention proposed rule that was released this week will maintain the federal government’s stranglehold on the nation’s residential mortgage market, discourage private capital from getting back into the game, further depress home prices across the country and constrain housing finance for first-time homebuyers, according to some securitization experts and analysts. The proposal would...