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The Treasury Department plans to use $50bn in rescue funds to pay mortgage investors to go along with borrower modifications.
Specifically, the Treasury aims to resolve the issue of second lien holders who must agree either to forgive debt or take a smaller financial return on modified loans held in investment, according to Reuters.
“It will be a shared effort with lenders, investors, borrowers and the government to ease or extinguish second-lien mortgage payments,” an unnamed administration official told the news service.
Second liens — or second mortgages sometimes piggybacked on top of first mortgages for borrowers without 20% to put down — raise an issue for the investor. With inherently higher interest rates (and lower principal balances) than first mortgages, these types of loans must face substantial modification if the plan is to have the far-reaching effect touted by the Treasury.
“The second lien holder, as is appropriate in the junior position, is taking more of a reduction in interest rate,” an anonymous source told Reuters. “The interest rate will go at least as low as the interest rate on the first and it will (fall) much further to get there.”
The Treasury, although slated to announce the plan today, has no comment as this story went to press.
The plan the Treasury will propose would allow for the adjustment of second liens automatically when a borrower’s first mortgage goes through the federal modification program. It aims to ease the process of borrowers seeking second liens like home equity loans for additional help, sources told Bloomberg.
Government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plan to implement the initiative with $75bn the Obama Administration set aside for housing, sources told Bloomberg. Source: Nuwireinvestor.com
Residence 5407 is the newest luxury model to open at The Strada at Mercato.
Furnished in a traditional contemporary style by Collins & DuPont, the one-bedroom-plus-den, one-bath residence features crisp whites with vivid turquoise accents and geometric lines. It is among several designer furnished models open daily for viewing at The Strada.
Developed by The Lutgert Companies, The Strada will feature a total of 92 residences on the second through fifth floors of two buildings overlooking the crescent-shaped main street of The Mercato. Ten floor plans are available for viewing, ranging from just under 1,000 square feet to 2,400 square feet and with one to three bedrooms. Prices are from the $500,000s to more than $1 million.
The Strada at Mercato is on the east side of U.S. 41, just north of Vanderbilt Beach Road. Source: floridaweekly.com
