Subprime Borrowers Say, ‘Wow -- I Could Have Had a Prime Mortgage!’

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Another good piece of enterprise reporting by Les Christie at CNNMoney.com: lots of people who were steered into expensive and risky subprime mortgages actually qualified for cheaper, prime-rate loans.

Under the headline ‘Wow, I Could Have Had a Prime Mortgage,’ Christie writes: ‘Imagine you’re a homeowner, and you discover that instead of the expensive subprime mortgage loan you signed on for, you actually qualified for a prime-rate mortgage with much lower interest rates.

More: ‘I reviewed several hundred [subprime] loans recently for our wholesale division,’ said Allen Hardester, regional director of development for mortgage-broker, Guaranteed Rate, ‘and all of them, with one exception, qualified for a prime-rate loan.’

More: ‘Fannie Mae estimated up to 50 percent of the borrowers, whose subprimes it bought that year, had credit profiles that could have qualified them for prime rates.’

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