Mortgage rates could rise by as much as 1.5 percentage points for homeowners with weaker credit or smaller down payments under various legislative proposals to overhaul Fannie MaeFNMA -7.69% and Freddie MacFMCC -8.15%, according to a study prepared for an industry group.
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The study, by Kent Colton and Michael Carliner of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, was produced for the Leading Builders of America, a trade group representing large U.S. home builders. The study found that earlier estimates of mortgage-rate increases from an overhaul of the mortgage-finance giants understate the potential impact to average American borrowers.
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