According to our account resources, Countrywide Home Loans will eliminate all subprime ARM loan products tomorrow for their wholesale partners; leaving only the 15, 20 and 30-year fixed mortgage products available for brokers. This follows on the heals of Angelo Mozilo's statement that Countrywide is "out of subprime" and marks a massive 180 from an industry built on short-term adjustable rate mortgages for people with less-than-perfect credit histories.
This change eliminates the remaining ARM products such as the 5-year, 7-year and 10-year fixed ARMs that were available after the company moved (along with the rest of the industry) a couple of months ago to eliminate the short-term 2-year and 3-year ARMs that made up the majority of loans written in the subprime market for 2005 &
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