Countrywide Beefing Up Subprime Mortgage Loans
Habal, Hala, American Banker
As high interest rates cut into mortgage demand, Countrywide Credit Industries is ramping up home equity and subprime mortgage lending to partially make up for lost volume.
The Calabasas, Calif., lender reported Wednesday that its total loan production was off 34% from September last year, to $4.7 billion. But it said home equity lending was up 67%, to $346 million, and subprime lending 35%, to $306 million.
Countrywide's monthly report underscored a shift in strategy throughout the mortgage industry. Now that the refinancing boom has ended, lenders are making more loans to people who previously might not have qualified for a mortgage. And that is beginning to fuel …
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Publication information:
Article title: Countrywide Beefing Up Subprime Mortgage Loans.
Contributors: Habal, Hala - Author.
Magazine title: American Banker.
Volume: 164.
Issue: 193
Publication date: October 7, 1999.
Page number: 1.
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