Move launched their MortgageMatch online mortgage qualification and origination website today.
Instead of responding to numerous emails I’m reducing my quick and dirty thoughts to this post… so please excuse the mortgage speak without detailed explanations and definitions…
Move created a mortgage ‘decision engine’ that effectively processes relative financial, credit and other risk based factors to generate [...]
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Yield Spread Premium: A consumer option to finance some or all of closing costs by accepting a higher interest rate than they otherwise qualify for.
There has been much debate about Yield Spread Premiums (YSP’s), from overall required disclosure policies to their potential abolition. All mortgage professionals have a personal opinion on the topic, some resort [...]
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Yield Spread Premiums (YSP’s) have gradually made their way into the American homeowners conscious, rising from relative obscurity.
While this is progress, their use in relation to their intent is still misunderstood, manipulated, and maligned. Although more consumers are now aware that YSP’s are cash rebates Lenders pay for a borrower to accept a higher interest [...]
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