The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut short a five-year agreement with Bank of America Corp. over the bank’s alleged submission of false mortgage data as the significantly curtailed government agency rolls back a bevy of settlements, ending the monitoring of BofA more than three years early. The bank “fulfilled the obligations” of the agreement signed […]
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Four years after a notorious condominium collapse that suddenly tightened home lending standards, influential government-sponsored enterprises have soothed some industry tensions, but lenders say there’s still more to be done. “Increased transparency regarding which condo projects are and are not on Fannie and Freddie’s approved list has been a big CHLA priority — so we
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In the four years since the Surfside condo collapse, a wave of regulatory changes continues to unsettle property owners and lenders, compounding challenges in an already fragile housing market. The scrutiny on condo developments in the aftermath of Surfside led to tightened lending rules that continue to put properties across the country onto a nonwarrantable
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