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To: SoftballMominVA
Actually, the bank CAN ask her for more money. When the property is assessed for significantly more than she paid for it, the taxes will go up. Her escrow account will fall below the RESPA levels and her bank will ask her to make up the difference.

Sure, your taxes can increase. I'm talking about the bank asking you to pay down a part of your principal. Because the value went down 10%-20%.

50 posted on 05/25/2005 3:40:18 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with Karl Marx, the AFL-CIO and E.P.I. please stop calling yourself a conservative!!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Sure, your taxes can increase. I'm talking about the bank asking you to pay down a part of your principal. Because the value went down 10%-20%.

No, I don't think that is standard anywhere, and I believe that it would be historically anomalous for a mortgage. (Revaluation in real estate I believe is normally only associated with leases; while there are some oddball mortgage situations -- for instance, I think in Hawaii that leasehold mortgages actually do exist -- I don't think revaluation even comes into play with those.)

So the question that came to my mind was how do the MBS folks and GSEs handle this? I knew that that prepayment is treated as an option, and it turns out that appreciation/depreciation/default/odd-loan-to-value can also be treated as a default option -- and that the Federal Reserve and the GSEs have had folks looking at that very subject. Here's a recent Fed paper on the subject (I first found and read an earlier version, but I have only skimmed this final version which looks much better than the one that I read): An Empirical Test of a Two-Factor Mortgage Valuation Model: How Much Do House Prices Matter?

118 posted on 05/26/2005 6:59:52 AM PDT by snowsislander
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