Mortgage Approvals : Documents To Gather For Your Lender

Bank guidelines loosenAccording to the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Survey, it’s getting easier to get approved for a home loan.

Between July – September 2012, fewer than 6% of banks tightened mortgage guidelines — the fourth straight quarter that’s happened– and roughly 10% of banks actually loosened them.

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Are Mortgage Standards Starting to Loosen?

The nation’s biggest banks have started to loosen mortgage lending guidelines. Is this another signal of an improving U.S. economy?

As reported by the Federal Reserve, last quarter, no “big banks” reported stricter mortgage standards as compared to the quarter prior and “modest fractions” of banks reported easier mortgage standards.  Continue reading