Fair Isaac Corporation and data provider CoreLogic announced last week they are collaborating on another new credit score that will focus on sharing more personal consumer information with mortgage lenders next year. FICO scores are the industry standard for determining credit risk on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration and this move is intended to provide a separate score that will incorporate information from sources like payday loans, evictions and child support payments. Future additions will likely include information on things like the status of utility accounts, rental payment histories and even cell phone account payments.

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The cost of getting a home mortgage (loan fees) from Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac are set to increase and will affect more borrowers, including those with stellar FICO credit scores. The fee changes actually were announced last year and they are now scheduled to go into effect on March 1 for Freddie Mac and April 1 for Fannie Mae.

According to the two mortgage giants, it is the first time since 2009 that they are raising risk fees and broadening the scope of borrower that will be affected. To avoid the new fees or to get a discount, most borrowers will need FICO scores of 740 or better and down payments of 25% or more. Lenders could absorb the cost, but most are expected to add it to their consumer loan costs immediately upon enactment.

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Fair Isaac and Company (FICO) announced the release of a new credit scoring product called the FICO 8 Mortgage Score. It was specifically designed to help lenders make better credit decisions in predicting mortgage performance risk and is now available from all three major U.S. credit reporting agencies – Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.

According to FICO, the FICO 8 Mortgage Score will analyze a borrower’s full credit history on file to deliver a better assessment of mortgage repayment risk and hopefully help cut down on the number of future foreclosures. FICO claims a 15% performance improvement over the standard credit scores currently available and says the new product includes additional score reason codes to help lenders understand and explain the scores to mortgage applicants.

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Just when you think you have all the bases covered in applying for your mortgage loan, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have added another stumbling block into the application process. Seems some unscrupulous individuals figured out that by disputing an account claim and having a notation added to your credit report removed that tradeline from being taken
into credit scoring consideration and thus was left out of the automated loan approval process.

Now, just exactly how they were getting these disputed tradelines on credit reports past the lenders underwriting process that is supposed to occur on all automatically approved DU or LP files, were not sure. Typically, if there is any question about a tradeline, an underwriter will request more information and require documentation to verify the veracity of the disputed account. But hey, in this day and age, we guess anything is possible.

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