A new innovation has come to the home lending industry and is aimed to help borrowers build equity more quickly
Conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has teamed up with the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America (NACA) to create a new approach to home finance that is aimed at helping homeowners build equity more quickly.
Called the Wealth Building Home Loan, the 15-year mortgage features a low fixed interest rate, no down payment, closing costs or funding fees. The product also includes the option to buy down the interest at a quicker half-percent rate.
Edward Pinto, a resident fellow of AEI who helped develop the concept, said he and Stephen Oliner, another AEI fellow, created the loan to serve two goals. The product will provide “a broad range of homebuyers – including low-income, minority and first-time buyers – a more reliable and effective means of building wealth … while maintaining buying power similar to a 30-year loan.”
Pinto and Oliner worked with Bruce Marks, founder of the Boston-based NACA to implement the new product, which is slated to be available by mid-November in all 30 states where NACA operates. Pinto told The New York Times that he persuaded Marks of the idea at a conference in May.
Pinto told Marks that the affordable, 15-year loan could, with government support, be “a game-changer” for lending. “You’re going from a debt model to an equity model, and that’s a huge change,” he told The New York Times.
Underwriting standards for the loan product are different from conventional lending. NACA underwrites the loans and does not look at a borrower’s credit history, instead looking at recent payment history and residual income, similar to VA loans.
In the first three years of a Wealth Building Home Loan, 77% of monthly mortgage payments pay off principal, while for a 30-year loan, 68% goes to pay interest, said Pinto. The loan provides a 0.75% lower interest rate and more than 90% of the buying power of a 30-year FHA loan.
Called the Wealth Building Home Loan, the 15-year mortgage features a low fixed interest rate, no down payment, closing costs or funding fees. The product also includes the option to buy down the interest at a quicker half-percent rate.
Edward Pinto, a resident fellow of AEI who helped develop the concept, said he and Stephen Oliner, another AEI fellow, created the loan to serve two goals. The product will provide “a broad range of homebuyers – including low-income, minority and first-time buyers – a more reliable and effective means of building wealth … while maintaining buying power similar to a 30-year loan.”
Pinto and Oliner worked with Bruce Marks, founder of the Boston-based NACA to implement the new product, which is slated to be available by mid-November in all 30 states where NACA operates. Pinto told The New York Times that he persuaded Marks of the idea at a conference in May.
Pinto told Marks that the affordable, 15-year loan could, with government support, be “a game-changer” for lending. “You’re going from a debt model to an equity model, and that’s a huge change,” he told The New York Times.
Underwriting standards for the loan product are different from conventional lending. NACA underwrites the loans and does not look at a borrower’s credit history, instead looking at recent payment history and residual income, similar to VA loans.
In the first three years of a Wealth Building Home Loan, 77% of monthly mortgage payments pay off principal, while for a 30-year loan, 68% goes to pay interest, said Pinto. The loan provides a 0.75% lower interest rate and more than 90% of the buying power of a 30-year FHA loan.
