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Private mortgage insurance covers residential first mortgage loans and expands home ownership opportunities by enabling people to purchase homes with less than 20% down payments.
Private mortgage insurance companies may have standards that are more restrictive than those listed herein.
Private mortgage insurance, or PMI, is required for any conventional loan with less than a 20% down payment.
Private mortgage insurance protects mortgage lenders from all or a portion of default-related losses on residential mortgage loans made mostly to home buyers who make down payments of less than 20% of the home’s purchase price.
Private mortgage insurance also facilitates the sale of low down payment mortgage loans in the secondary mortgage market, principally to the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie Mac") (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are collectively referred to as the "GSEs").