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Two Pricey Home Loans Consumers Should Watch For

August 11, 2013 by Scott Sheldon

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Getting a mortgage anytime soon? Two types of home loans are inherently pricier than their traditional mortgage counterparts and we’re not talking subprime or private money. If your credit score is beneath 680 or you have little equity or you have credit blemishes, fact is borrowing money will cost you…

FHA Loans and Conventional Loans are the meat and potatoes of today’s mortgage market, and represent the lion’s share of mortgage applications. So why are the most popular financing types so pricey? Let’s go over how these loans created.

FHA Overview

An FHA Loan has two primary forms of mortgage insurance (insures mortgage lender against payment default), an upfront mortgage insurance premium (UFMIP) financed over the the loan term e.g 360 months which is based on 175 basis points of the loan amount, an additional monthly insurance premium is also applied using 135 basis points of the loan amount.

Using a $400,000 home loan for example, that’s an extra $486 added to the monthly mortgage payment for the benefit of carrying federal debt.

How Payments Break Down

UMFIP: $400,000 loan amount ×.0175 (UMFIP)=$7000 + $400,000= $407,000 financed loan amount, this is figure determines the principal and interest payment

Monthly Mortgage Insurance: $400,000× .0135  ÷12 = $450, this is the monthly premium inflates the mortgage payment

Conventional Overview

The Conventional Loan, most sought lowest cost mortgage available right?

Wrong!!

Mortgage Tip: 99.9% of mortgage companies, won’t tell you when you’re comparing offerings, if your credit score is under 700, your Conventional Home Loan is going to get very pricey, very quick.

Unlike the FHA counterpart, there is no upfront mortgage insurance premium with just a monthly premium based on a varying range of percentage of the proposed loan amount. The higher the risk for the lender, the higher the price paid by the consumer.

Two factors which influence the price above and beyond anything else, loan-to-value, and credit score.

How Payments Break Down

Two scenarios financing $400,000

  1. 740 credit score, with 5% down-mortgage insurance based on 76 basis points
  2. 640 credit score, with 5% down-mortgage insurance based on 120 basis points

Monthly Mortgage Insurance:

$400,000× .0076  ÷12 = $253.33 per month for 740 credit score

$400,000× .0120 ÷12 = $$400 per month for 640 credit score

The price paid is $1.47 per point in credit score. By reducing the loan to value, (putting more money down for example), a person with a lower credit score could receive a lower percentage of mortgage insurance on a Conventional Loan, however, while this is the case, even someone with lower down payment and a higher credit score will typically secure a lower cost home loan. Conventional Loans generally are a lower-cost options when compared against a loan insured by the FHA. Conventional weight credit score with risk, more strongly than the FHA.

Evaluating Pricey Home Loans

What to consider when researching mortgage options:

  • What is my credit score? What is my credit history? Could it be improved?
  • What type of down payment do I have? *Any home loan with less than 20% down will require monthly mortgage insurance, thus making the loan pricier…
  • Can I put more money down? Buy less house and apply for less debt?
  • Can I afford a higher monthly mortgage payment for the long haul?
  • Is my monthly income enough to debt service all of my current liabilities and a proposed new mortgage payment? Talk to a mortgage company.

No matter what your situation is, a qualified mortgage professional should be able to help you evaluate the pros and cons of the pricier loans available in the market to determine which course of action is best suitable for you. You can start researching costs and rates by getting a complementary mortgage rate quote now.

 

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