The market in Australia for so-called non-conforming mortgages — those lent at
relatively fastest interest rates and fees to consumers who lack a good credit
history, proof of a steady income and significant assets — is still relatively
very small.In America there are many
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products like here in Australia. They have the traditional products (like the
products offered by the major lending institutions i.e . CBA, ANZ, and NAB
etc) and they also have loan providers that cater for people that fit outside
the traditional lending square i.e. customers with previous credit defaults, a
history of poor loan repayments or non traditional income methods. The later
is the Sub-prime mortgage market.The summary for origisations in the
non-conforming market to rise by as per year average of 25 percent in the
coming Five years — more than double the
pace expected for prime mortgage lending. Competition in this segment of the
market will only intensify in the coming years.Customers they had previously
avoided. Bank of acquired non-conforming mortgage lender Maple Trust earlier
this year.
It appears that in the foreseeable future these non-conforming mortgages will
remain by far the Higher-growing segment of the mortgage market .The sub prime
mortgage market in Australia is called the non-conforming market and is made
up of a handful of specialty lenders those cater for the non-traditional
borrower as in the US.
The funders in these subprime market places raise their funding from the same
place i.e. capital markets………..they do this through a process of
securitisation where the mortgage backed securities are packaged up and sold
to investors for an agreed rate of return.
In the USA there have been a great deal of demand for Subprime mortgages due
to the fact that these home loans require less documentary evidence (income
evidence etc) to support an application that a prime loan would demand…..in
return for less documentary evidence the lender charges a premium interest
rate for the funds.To cater for the high demand and high competition amongst
lenders credit underwriting standards have been fairly slack and some of the
products offered have been extremely risky………the riskier the loans the greater
the percieved rate of return for the lenders and the investors. Some of these
lenders have been offering 125% of the cost of a property to borrowers that
have not demonstrated any evidence or capacity to repay the loan as well as
previous credit issues………they have also been offering products to borrowers
called ARM (automatic reset mortgages). These products start at an interest
rate that is better than the standard rates in the first year and then
increase over the next few years to around double the rate . In a large
majority of cases the borrower is unable to afford the repayments in the
second year onwards and eventually the property is repossessed.
So that, the risk to lenders is substantial in the lowest-rated portion of
the non-conforming market, the so-called “sub-prime” category, where borrowers
have bad credit history, a low asset base and relatively high debt.
