Saturday, June 7th, 2008
When you are applying for a refinance or to purchase a home the loan to value (LTV) is usually the first value a loan officer will compute. Most borrowers under estimate the ramifications loan to value LTV has on pricing and qualifying for a loan. What you really need to know here is how to arrive at the loan to value ratio. It’s pretty simple. You take the expected loan amount and divide it by expected appraisal value. (more…)


