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CFPB Bites of the Month - July 2024

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior and current month covered during the July 2024 webinar....more

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CFPB Enters into Consent Orders with Reverse Mortgage Servicers for $16.5 Million

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On ​​​​​​​June 18, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced that it has entered into consent orders with two companies totaling $16.5 million in civil penalties and consumer redress​,...more

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CFPB Imposes Bans from Reverse Mortgage Servicing, $11.5 Million Restitution, and $5 Million in Civil Money Penalties for...

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The CFPB entered into consent orders with a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ("HECM," also known as a "reverse mortgage") servicing contractor, its subcontractor, and two of its subcontractor's subsidiaries. The U.S....more

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HUD Updates Home Equity Conversion Rules for Purchases

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On April 26, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued Mortgagee Letter 2024-06, announcing changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) for purchases (H4P loans), a mortgage program...more

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HUD Revises the HECM Program in Response to Changing Market Conditions

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Last week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revised multiple regulations and requirements related to servicing Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs, more commonly known as “reverse mortgages”), with...more

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HUD Seeks Comment on Proposed Notice to Change HECM for Purchase Program to Expand Funding Sources and Interested Party...

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A&B Abstract: On October 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) published, for public comment, a Federal Register Notice (“Proposed Notice”) to implement changes to the Federal housing...more

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Appellate Court of Maryland Holds That “Loss Before Foreclosure Rule” Applies to Non-Recourse Reverse Mortgages

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The “loss before foreclosure rule” provided for in the Restatement (Third) of Property (Mortgages) §4.8 specifies that when improvements on secured property are destroyed by fire and the loan is due and payable, where a...more

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FHA Amends HECM Assignment Claim Type 22 Submission Requirements

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Affirming its commitment to the senior citizen population, on May 17, 2023, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issued Mortgagee Letter 2023-10, implementing amendments to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (December 13, 2021)

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Thank you for your interest in the Wiley Consumer Protection Download! This will be our last publication of 2021, with our bi-weekly newsletter returning in January 2022. Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending November 19, 2021

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Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Reverse Mortgage: Surviving spouse who did not sign the note did not qualify as a “borrower” by signing the mortgage and related documents – OneWest Bank, N.A. v. Leek-Tannenbaum, No....more

Locke Lord LLP

New York Opens Significant New ‎Lending Market by Authorizing Reverse Mortgages Secured ‎by ‎Co-Op Apartments‎

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The law does not take effect until mid-2022 and is subject to regulations to be promulgated by the ‎New ‎York Department of Financial Services. ‎ On December 1, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill...more

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CFPB enters into second settlement with reverse mortgage provider

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Last week, the CFPB simultaneously filed a lawsuit against American Advisors Group (AAG) in a California federal district court and a proposed stipulated final judgment and order to settle the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged...more

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Summer Reading July, 2021 - Note Prevails over Mortgage in the Event of a Conflict

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A recent decision from The Supreme Court of Florida (the “Florida Supreme Court”) in WVMF Funding v. Luisa Palmero, et al. (Fl. S. Ct.; SC19-1920, June 24, 2021) held that, while a note and mortgage must be read together, in...more

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Florida Supreme Court Quashes Third District Holding: Note Supersedes Mortgage if Conflict Arises

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In WVMF Funding v. Palmero, the Supreme Court of Florida quashed the Third District Court of Appeals’ holding in OneWest Bank, FSB v. Palmero, 283 So. 3d 346 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019) that Mrs. Palmero was a “borrower” under a...more

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CFPB Enters Into Consent Order With Reverser Mortgage Lender and Broker

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The CFPB recently entered into a consent order with Nationwide Equities Corporation (Nationwide), which the CFPB refers to as a mortgage broker and mortgage lender that primarily provides jumbo reverse mortgage loans and Home...more

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Lender Allegedly Used Unlawful And Misleading Tactics To Market Reverse Mortgages

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) reached a settlement with reverse-mortgage lender Nationwide Equities Corporation (“Nationwide Equities”) to resolve allegations that it used false and misleading advertising...more

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New York State Revises Restrictive HECM Foreclosure Law

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A&B ABstract - On December 15, 2020, New York State enacted legislation amending the New York Real Property Law that would have placed various restrictions and requirements on the servicing of Home Equity Conversion Mortgages...more

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All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 8, October 2020

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Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act - What You Need to Know - Between the Civil War and 1940, the United States periodically had legislation that prevented lawsuits against soldiers and sailors during times of conflict. Then,...more

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All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 6, September 2020

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Morrisey, Other AGs Reach $330 Million Agreement with Student Loan Company - "West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and 47 other attorneys general have reached a $330 million, multistate agreement with a student...more

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All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights: Issue 5, September 2020

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Three Important Ways the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the Delivery of Consumer Financial Services - The world continues to come to grips with the daily changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools contemplate...more

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Is The Reverse Mortgage A Viable Option?

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It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. Many people out there today are facing some financial headwinds that were not reasonably foreseeable a few months ago. Today they have businesses to operate or even...more

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New York Enacts HECM Law

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A&B ABstract: Effective March 5, 2020, New York Assembly Bill 5626 (“AB 5626”) regulates the origination and servicing of the federal U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) home equity conversion mortgages...more

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House Financial Services Committee Meets to Discuss Improvements to FHA HECM Program

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The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance convened a hearing on September 25, 2019, to discuss the federal Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)...more

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FHA Tasked With Improving Reverse Mortgage Oversight

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published two reports on September 25 identifying several weaknesses in the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) oversight of reverse mortgages made under the Home Equity...more

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FHA Extends Non-Borrowing Spouse Protections

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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued Mortgagee Letter 2019-15, in which it announced several modifications to the Mortgagee Optional Election (MOE) Assignment claim process for Home...more

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