Policy Changes Could Push FHA Loans Above CFPB QM Threshold, MBA Calls for APOR Revisions to FHA Loans
March 7, 2013
The Mortgage Bankers Association urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to give all FHA loans a conclusive presumption of compliance with qualified mortgage requirements and to revise the QM annual percentage rate/average prime offer rate (APR/APOR) threshold for FHA loans at least until the agency issues its own QM rule. Failure to make the adjustments could severely restrict the availability of FHA loans to lower-income first-time homebuyers, which is the FHAs traditional market, the trade group said. In comments on the CFPBs final ability-to-repay rule, the MBA said...