His father was in a dispute with the existing lender, and he says a New Century manager told him he could refinance out of this new loan quickly with no penalty.
What we found was that at the same time that Freddie Mac was tightening those credit standards that is making it harder to refinance, the company was also going out into the market and betting against homeowners' ability to refinance and not just small bets.
Unease has been growing since last year, when the sharp drop in interest rates, and the consequent rush to refinance mortgages taken out at higher rates, left Fannie Mae with a mismatch between its debt obligations and its revenues from mortgage bonds.
I'm not saying that the program that he outlined is the sole reason for, but the amount of money that was put out there in order to help refinance has indeed helped to drive down the overall rate that we find at such a low point right now.
In December, the federal government rolled out a revamped version of the Home Affordable Refinance Program with relaxed home-equity requirements, to allow more borrowers to refinance.
In February, Domino's announced a plan to refinance its current debt and take out a large low-interest loan backed by its revenue-generating assets, in an effort largely aimed at returning capital to shareholders.
And they said, you can refinance and you can take some money out.
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Nearly twice as many homeowners are lining up to refinance mortgages, many of them pulling out extra cash, billions of it.
Mortgage payment delinquencies hit a 20-year high in the third quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, as borrowers were unable to refinance or sell their homes to get out of a credit pinch.
Bond investors have consequently ditched Irish debt because of fears they would suffer a haircut, or in other words, lose some of their investment when Ireland tries to refinance or even when it gets bailed out.
That's why the prepayment penalty has become the focus, and trying to get people out from under the prepayment penalty so they can refinance is the key to saving some of them -obviously, not all of them.
Instead of helping only one million homeowners refinance their homes, we should try to help out the 16.5 million homeowners who are under water with their mortgages.
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Second, there are going to be lower closing costs, and certain refinancing fees will be eliminated -- fees that can sometimes cancel out the benefits of refinancing altogether, so people don't bother to refinance because they've got all these fees that they have to pay.
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From public disclosures it is impossible to work out the liquidity position of these firms, but it is likely that most will have to refinance existing credit lines in today's far less forgiving world, a process not helped by high local rates and a weak rupee.
The leaders also agreed to bring forward to next year the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a fund designed to bail out ailing countries reducing the risk that the likes of Italy and Spain would struggle to refinance maturing debts.
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Bank loans term out in less than 10-years (often five to seven years) and issuers generally need to refinance at the end of that term.
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