Pressmaster/Shutterstock Not so many years ago, obtaining a mortgage was a local affair. You'd walk into your neighborhood bank, fill out a few papers, and get your loan -- and the money would usually come from the institution you'd walked into. But over the last 25 years or so, the banking industry has undergone a series of sweeping changes. Mortgage lending has become much more standardized and national, so your local bank is probably underwriting your loan based on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac standards. Fannie Mae (the Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.) supply cash to the primary mortgage markets by purchasing large blocks of loans originated by other lenders. Mortgages that don't conform to their standards can't be sold on the secondary market. The bank will hold these rare in-house loans on its books or possibly sell them to another bank directly. What Is a Mortgage Assumption? This article isn't about Fannie or Freddie, but you need to know a little about mortgage lending's history before we start to discuss mortgage assumptions, which allow new borrowers to assume the terms of in-place mortgages, such as payments, interest rates and pay-offs. Mortgage assumptions were the norm for many years.
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