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 FHFA Announces Increase in Maximum Conforming Loan Limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2019  It's that time of year when changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Mortgage Loan Limits are reviewed and adjusted.  This year, loan limits took a sharp increase over 2018.Below is an excerpt from Mor...

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 Greetings Forum FHFA Announces Increase in Maximum Conforming Loan Limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2017 Below is a link to the 2017 Limit http://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Documents/Conforming-Loan-Limits/FullCountyLoanLimitList2017_HERA-BASED_FINAL.PDF Have a safe and enjoyable T...

Forum I know that this is brief, but just wanted to get this out before the Thanksgiving holiday is upon us. It was announced and published today that the new Conforming Limits were published.  This announcement came from Mortgage New Daily.  See below: It was announced today that Loan Limits for...

  Forum   Just read online that Zillow just announced the purchase of Trulia.  I know that we have been through this before, yet I have had serious issues with Zillow in the past so this really makes me take a pause.   I know that one thing always remains the same.....That is things always change...

Forum   We have just been informed that the Conforming Limits for 2015 are out.  Most all areas have remained unchanged from 2014; however, 46 Counties have seen slight increases in the "High Cost Areas".   For those of you who want to know, the states with increases include: Washington, Californ...

  AR Forum   We've all known that Underwriting Guidelines have gotten shall we say, just a little more difficult in the last few years (Sarcasm).   Ben S. Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve Chairman, speaking at a Conference yesterday told a Moody's Analytics, Inc. moderator that he himself was...

  AR Forum I debated a few days about writing this, but after giving it some thought I decided to post this anyways.  While I have been in the mortgage business for many, many years, something really just hit me so to speak that there our sides of our business which we don't always see when deali...

HOT No time for fancy pictures.  This just came to me via Mortgage News site at Mortgage News Daily. Realtors and Brokers will soon be able to Go Direct to Fannie to Negotiate Directly for properties offered for sale Under HomePath. Sounds like Great news to me. For a direct link, please Go Here:...

AR Forum Since yesterday, a Software used by Loan Officers and those in the mortgage industry has experienced Nationwide Outage.  The software through Ellie Mae, known as Encompass has brought loan origination, underwriting, and closing almost to a stand still. While some functions can still be p...