Dont Look for a Lot of Non-QM, Rebuttable Presumption QMs to Purchase, Experts Say
February 1, 2013
Secondary market investors interested in branching out beyond plain vanilla mortgage products are not going to have much to get excited about once the Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus new ability-to-repay rule kicks in next year, top legal experts suggested this week. Will lenders make rebuttable presumption qualified mortgages? Remember, [lenders] are free to make loans that generally satisfy the ATR standard. We dont think those are going to be very common. We dont think they are going to be saleable in the secondary market at this point in time from what we know today, Donald Lampe, leader of the financial services regulatory and compliance practice with the Dykema law firm, told participants in a webinar hosted by Inside Mortgage Finance, an affiliated newsletter. As he sees it, the real issue boils down...