This is important news for both buyers and sellers! The mortgage insurance is going up on April 1st and on June 3rd they are going to make the mortgage insurance premium stay for the life of the loan! The increase in rates isn’t as much of a shock to me as making the mortgage insurance stick around for the life of the loan. This means that even if you have paid down the loan to 50% of the value of the house, you are still going to be paying 1.35% of the original loan amount every year for mortgage insurance. Over the 30 year life of the loan this will add up to a huge amount of money. For every $100,000 of loan a buyer will be paying $112.50 per month or $1,350 per year in mortgage insurance. That adds up to $40,500 over a 30 year loan, just for the mortgage insurance! And that is for every $100,000 in loan value, so a $300,000 loan would now cost you an extra $121,500 over the life of the loan. You can refinance out of the loan at a later date, but right now interest rates are at a record low. Who knows where they will be when you are ready to refinance out of this FHA loan. It should be obvious why this should matter to a buyer. If they are purchasing a home with an FHA loan, they need to do it quickly to avoid the increase in mortgage insurance and the mortgage insurance for the life of the loan. For a seller, there are less obvious reasons that this is important to them. Obviously, if they are going to sell one house and buy another one with an FHA loan they will need to move very quickly. But here is the less obvious impact to sellers. As more buyers hear about this impending shift in the cost of their FHA loan and the date looms closer, they will start to feel even more pressure to get a home under contract. The article below suggests that if a buyer wants to avoid the increase, they should be under contract by March 25th. If this follows a similar pattern of the federal tax credit that ended on April 31st 2010 then buyers will pick over the inventory leading up to this date and prices will get pushed up. By the last few weeks it was a bit of a feeding frenzy. Now, I don’t expect it to be quite as crazy as it was in April 2010 but I do expect it to have an impact leading up to the April 1st date as well as the June 3rd date. Then again, even though the dates are split two months apart we have been suffering with a very low level of inventory in the market for over a year...
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