Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) and Risk Retention

Proposed QRM rules may lead to high down payment requirements. Learn more >

QRM Means Higher Rates
During Market Volatility

NAR Economist Ken Fears considers how the proposed Qualified Residential Mortgage rule would affect mortgage rates during market volatility.
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See also: Recent Lessons for the QRM >


WHAT NAR IS DOING

NAR Calls Consumers to Action

In July, NAR reached out to 6 million targeted consumers to ask them to join the fight against the 20 percent down payment requirement in the qualified residential mortgage (QRM) proposal.

REALTORS® Urge Regulators to Reconsider QRM Definition

The original sponsors of the QRM provision in the Dodd-Frank Act joined other Congressmen June 22 to urge regulators to reconsider unnecessarily high down payment requirements under the proposed QRM rule.
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Effort to Correct QRM Gains Momentum

Momentum is building as lawmakers on a bipartisan basis lead effort to modify banking regulators' proposal to require 20 percent down for affordable qualified residential mortgage (QRM) loans.
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IN THE NEWS

Column: Proposed 20% Down Payment Rule Could Put Owning A Home Out of Reach for Many
Washington Post

Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act & QRM
Alaska Real Estate Podcast

UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE

Study: Proposed Rule's Impact
On Defaults Would Be Small

Recent research from the Center for Responsible Lending shows that proposed standards could push more than half of creditworthy borrowers into high-cost loans and that the consequences for minorities are particularly striking.
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Why QRM Concerns NAR

An updated video explaining the proposed rule: who it protects, why it is proposed, and NAR's concerns.
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