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DOJ and CFPB sue Colony Ridge over predatory lending practices

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That’s the first predatory mortgage lending case brought by the DOJ. Discrimination in lending harms families and neighborhoods for generations; it is wrong, and it has no place in our country,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. between 2017 and 2021, per the lawsuit.

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Guaranteed Rate Affinity sues former originators over advanced compensation

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Guaranteed Rate Affinity has initiated legal action against former loan originators, accusing them of breaching contracts by failing to pay back advanced signing bonuses and commissions after they left the company. Guaranteed Rate Affinity is a joint venture established in 2017 by Guaranteed Rate and Anywhere Real Estate (former Realogy ).

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Financing proves an obstacle for ADUs

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Accessory dwelling units are increasingly legal. Consequently, the study found that the actual ADU’s being built come from people with the means to either pay all cash in constructing the secondary homes or absorb the lending terms. ADUs were legalized statewide in 2017. But are they affordable?

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Freddie Mac names chief diversity and inclusion officer

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Chambliss is currently the deputy general counsel for mission and anti-predatory lending at the enterprise. In that role he gives legal and regulatory advice on activities connected with fulfilling Freddie Mac’s mission. He also oversees Freddie Mac’s anti-predatory lending efforts.

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HUD plans to restore 2013 version of discrimination rule

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” In other words, the agency said the 2020 update to the Fair Housing Act would have made it harder for those seeking justice to meet the legal threshold for proving unintentional discrimination. By 2017, the Trump administration, via the Department of the Treasury , called on HUD to reconsider how it used the disparate impact rule.

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Feds seek to enlist real estate agents in anti-corruption push

Housing Wire

In addition, the proposed rule also envisions potentially requiring mandated reporting for trusts — defined, by FinCEN, as a legal “relationship in which one person holds title to property subject to an obligation to keep or use the property for the benefit of another.”. and foreign trusts,” the agency’s proposed rule states. .

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Judge’s ruling will put PLS trusts under the thumb of the CFPB

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A recent judge’s ruling in pending litigation involving student-loan securitization trusts could have far-reaching legal and financial implications for the private-label securities market. The CFPB sued the student loan trusts in 2017, claiming they engaged in prohibited debt-collection and litigation practices.

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