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Two new underwater refinance programs are set to give homeowners with little or no home equity new options for refinancing their mortgages.

The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) will end on Oct.1, but that doesn't mean that homeowners with negative or low equity won't be able to refinance their mortgages.

Time is running out for low-equity and underwater homeowners to refinance through the federal HARP program.

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Qualified homeowners are getting an extra year to reduce their mortgage payments through the federal HARP and HAMP initiatives, now that the deadlines for both programs have been extended by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

New Year's Day has come and gone, but there's still one more resolution you should make: get a HARP refinance for your underwater or low-equity mortgage, if you haven't done so already.

The clock is ticking on HARP, the federal program designed to help underwater and low-equity homeowners refinance their mortgages.

More than 3 million mortgages have now been refinanced through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), a milestone the once-beleaguered federal program reached in November.

As many as half of all homeowners have never refinanced their mortgages, despite Further information:.

Applications for mortgage refinancing[[sitetree_link,id=13]] have been dwindling as rates have risen in recent months.But if you haven't been able to refinance yet, those higher rates might represent an opportunity.