Countrywide eliminating Non-Conforming Fast & Easy stated-income loans today

Published by Morgan
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Breaking news today from Countrywide. Effective today Countrywide wholesale will no longer offer the Non-Conforming Fast & Easy document waiver program. Fast & Easy is Countrywide’s version of stated income. Non-conforming loan amounts will no longer be eligible for stated income regardless of credit score.
This is a huge guideline change for the company that prided itself on offering jumbo loans with no income documentation in the past. The elimination of stated income loans from Countrywide should further depress home prices in expensive states where income and home prices just don’t line up.
From an internal email regarding the change:
Effective 8:00 pm (PT), Friday June 13, 2008, the Non-Conforming Fast & Easy document waiver program will no longer be available.
Guideline ImpactThe following LPGs will be updated effective, June 13, 2008:LPG 12.10 - Non Conforming Programs, Fixed Rate, Fixed Period ARMs, Short Term ARMs, Full, Alt, and Fast and Easy (sm) Documentation
Pipeline Protection
Loans currently in the pipeline are eligible under the old guidelines only if submitted to CAWL via CWBC or boarded in EDGE and Approved by 8:00 pm (PT) Friday, June 13.
Loans in the pipeline must be locked on or before June 27, 2008, and must fund/close on or before Monday, July 14, 2008.
Any lock extension/re-lock will be subject to current lock extension/re-lock polices, and the loan must still fund on or before Thursday, July 14, 2008.
If any material changes are made to a loan currently in the pipeline at any time after loan approval and prior to funding/closing, the original loan approval is no longer valid and the loan must be countered to full doc. Examples of material changes include, but are not limited to: FICO Score, Loan Amount, LTV, CLTV, Income, Employment, Assets, or Program and/or ratios.
Loans that are not eligible under the old guidelines are subject to the new guidelines, and must generally either be Counteroffered or Declined (as applicable).