He said he regretted the decision to re-mortgage at the taxpayer's expense, describing it as a "bad judgement", while stressing that he had acted entirely within the rules.
The Babisters, who wanted to move from their house in the same street in Turweston, also had an application to re-mortgage their current house turned down by another lender.
And the housing market remains strong, with the lowest interest rates for 40 years encouraging many people to re-mortgage their homes and withdraw some of the equity to finance spending.
"There are thousands of people facing the prospect of real hardship because they cannot find mortgage deals to re-mortgage onto, so unblocking the financial system I think is a very important step, " he said.
If you need a mortgage to finance your purchase, seek out the services of an overseas mortgage advisor such as Homesgofast.com, which can help you re-mortgage your current home, take out a new loan in your current country or borrow abroad.
As another poster mentioned, this is no different than re-financing a mortgage.
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But looking now at what your current interest rate is--particularly if you're in a conforming mortgage--Freddie can refinance you up to 125% loan devalue, whereas it used to be 80%.
The mortgage re-modification programs have been designed by the banks to keep money flowing in, while they should be used to stimulate our sagging economy.
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As mortgage transactions go, my re-fi was about as simple as things get.
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It says that the President -- they're going to convene to look at the broader mortgage market as a whole, which includes Fannie, Freddie, FHA, and think about a broad expanse of things and what we do in the mortgage market.
Bond insurers such as MBIA and Ambac Financial Group built up their businesses by insuring low-risk municipal bonds, but during the nation's housing boom, these and other bond insurers invested heavily in subprime and other mortgage-backed investments, and now they're paying the price.
And when that interest rate readjusts upward - we're talking specifically about somebody who was in the subprime mortgage that was also in adjustable rate mortgage, meaning that it was typically a very low rate for a year or so, maybe three years, and then it would readjust upward once rates changed in a couple of years.
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So there are banks who give loans and there's also mortgage companies that give loans -is there a difference in what they're doing?
Loan modifications allow homeowners to re-establish their loans by making one or more changes to terms, in an effort to ease monthly mortgage payments.
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And many more Americans found themselves in a terrible situation by no fault of their own: unable to pay a mortgage because of a lost job, but they're unable to sell or refinance because their mortgage debt is now higher than the value of their house -- their home is underwater.
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One of the things we've noticed is that with interest rates down below 5 percent for a 30-year fixed mortgage, if you put 20 percent down on your house, what you're finding is that people are buying some of these foreclosed and distressed homes and that is helping the market out.
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