About Credit Scoring

Most anyone who has obtained a home mortgage in the past 5 years or so has heard about credit scoring. How many of you have been told “your scores are great”, or “if your score were 10 points higher, your rate would be better by 1/4 point”? Probably most of you.

We in the industry started to become aware of “scoring models”, as they are called, as early as 1994. The use of scoring models in the mortgage industry came about as the major secondary market players, known as Fannie Mae and Freebie Mac, started to develop automated underwriting systems. They had been in use for a long time for auto lenders and credit card issuers.

The early creators of the automated underwriting systems felt that, if someone could go to a Mercedes dealership at 10 am and drive off the showroom floor an hour later with a $100,000 car (still more expensive than homes are in many parts of the country), they ought to be able to obtain a home loan the same way. The logic in this should be obvious… after all, cars are rolling stock, so they can disappear, they depreciate and usually people don’t live in them. Houses are attached to a foundation, they usually appreciate and people usually live in them. Using that logic, the industry should be able to make the home buying process easier for everyone. Read more »

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