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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

HUD’s Federal Flood Risk Management Standard Final Rule to Help Communities Reduce Flood Damage, but Tradeoffs Draw Criticism

On April 22, 2024, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published its final rule regarding updated flood insurance requirements in certain areas of the country: Floodplain Management and Protection of...more

Alston & Bird

The COVID-19 National Emergency is Ending: Are mortgage servicers ready?

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A&B Abstract: On January 30, 2023, President Biden informed Congress that the COVID-19 National Emergency (the “COVID Emergency”) will be extended beyond March 1, 2023, but that he anticipates terminating the national...more

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HUD Authorizes Acceptance of Private Flood Insurance for FHA-Insured Mortgages

Effective December 21, 2022, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) amended its regulation at 24 C.F.R. § 203.16a to allow FHA borrowers to purchase private flood insurance for properties located in Special Flood Hazard...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

April Update: COVID-19 Mortgage Servicing Trends Report

Bradley is proud to share the following information collected from the live polls presented at its weekly COVID-19 Compliance Roundtables. The polling covers hot topics, including forbearances, deferrals, HUD loss mitigation...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Inspection by HUD's Inspector General of FHA Mortgage Servicers' Websites Reveals Incomplete, Inconsistent, and Unclear CARES Act...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Inspector General issued a COVID-19 bulletin for homeowners that revealed the HUD has been monitoring what readily accessible information FHA mortgage...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG's CARES Act Webinar

As we continue to learn more about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), we are committed to sharing our knowledge and understanding of the bill with our clients. In this webinar, we provided a...more

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TRID: New Requirements for Real Estate Closing Disclosures Are Here, Will There be A Grace Period?

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It’s finally here. Over the weekend, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) long awaited and oft delayed integration of the disclosures required by the Federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and Real Estate...more

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FHA Solicits Public Comment on Proposed Information Collection for Its “Loan-Level” and “Lender-Level” Certifications

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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published two notices soliciting public comment on proposed information collection for its Single Family Loan Level Certification and Annual Certification on September 1, 2015....more

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Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending July 31 & August 7, 2015

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Foreclosure: non-borrower owner of real property as tenants-in-common with borrower not required to sign mortgage for borrower to encumber only his interest in the property and non-borrower’s signature on mortgage reflected...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Treasury Request for Public Input on Expanding Access to Credit through Online Marketplace Lending

On July 20, the Department of the Treasury published a Notice and Request for Information (“RFI”) seeking comment on various aspects of online marketplace lending, including – - the business models and products offered...more

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HUD Announces Final Rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

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On July 8, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a final rule today to equip communities that receive HUD funding with data and tools to help them meet long-standing fair housing obligations in their...more

MoFo Reenforcement

Supervisory Haiku-lights, Summer 2015

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Break out the short shorts everybody: it’s summer! We know you could use a palate cleanser between the 50 Shades novels and Game of Thrones wikis you’re reading on the beach. Supervisory Haiku-lights to the rescue! The Summer...more

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Final Credit Risk Retention Rules Adopted for Asset Backed Securities and Residential Mortgage Backed Securities

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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency, and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Council of EU Publishes Compromise Proposal on ELTIF Regulation - On May 27, the Council of the EU published a compromise proposal (10215/14), dated May 23, 2014, in respect of the European Commission's proposed...more

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HUD challenge to executive compensation

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On Friday, May 16th, HUD released compensation data from the 2013 Executive Compensation Survey, in which Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) were required to report salary information from their top 3 management officials and...more

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Editorial: Who’s The Fairest Lender Of Them All? As Government Scrutiny Intensifies, Don’t Get Snowed Under By Fair-Lending Laws

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In the past few years, the federal government has devoted substantial resources to scrutinizing and litigating what it perceives to be unfair, deceptive or abusive mortgage-lending practices. Looking forward, all indications...more

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Sixth Circuit in Carter Refuses to Defer to HUD’s RESPA Guidelines

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In a decision two years in the making, on Wednesday, November 27, 2013, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals brought some clarity to the use of affiliated business arrangements (“ABAs”) under Real Estate Settlement Procedures...more

Troutman Pepper

Summary Of HUD’s LEAN 232 Program E-Mail Blast: Office Of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF), November 12, 2013

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In an effort to summarize the highlights of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) LEAN E-mail Blasts that we receive, and rarely have time to review in a timely fashion, we at Pepper are providing this...more

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Guilty Unless Proven Innocent: FHA’s Potential New Enforcement Regime

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The use of statistical sampling to evidence compliance violations without actually performing loan level reviews is at the center of a new enforcement regime that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD” or...more

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