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What’s a Home Worth? A View From the Other Side of the Table

New Homes

State policies offering redemption periods don’t understand time is the cause for foreclosure. That same time offered to redeem is the reason s house falls into ghoulish disrepair and distress and becomes a shell of the home it used to be. So, is the house the home it used to be?

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CFPB Announces Proposal to Delay TRID Implementation Until October 1

This announcement comes just two weeks after the CFPB announced that a grace period will be in effect for those servicers attempting to comply in good faith with the TRID requirements that are scheduled to go into effect August 1. While the CFPB did not push back the August 1 implementation date of the rule, it attempted to ease some of those concerns by saying it would take into account a company's good faith effort to comply with the rule after it goes into effect.

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Senator Proposes Legislation to Help Underwater Borrowers Avoid Foreclosure

Menendez's bill seeks to help both homeowners and lenders. In exchange for reducing the amount of principal owed, banks would be entitled to a portion of any future increase in value the home might experience. This gives the underwater homeowners relief on their mortgages while banks take a short-term reduction in exchange for a long-term gain pending the housing market recovery.

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OCC to Escheat Uncashed Foreclosure Relief Funds; Restrictions Placed on Chase, Wells Fargo

Also on Wednesday, the OCC announced that it has terminated foreclosure-related consent orders against three national mortgage servicers that have met the consent order requirements and imposed business restrictions on six banks that have not met the requirements. The six institutions that the OCC determined have not met all the requirements of the IFR were (alphabetically) Everbank, HSBC Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Santander Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo, and therefore the OCC issued orders to restrict their business activities.

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FHFA: Uncertainty Remains as to GSEs’ Financial Sustainability

Fannie Mae reported positive net worth of $3.7 billion as of the end of 2014, slightly more than half of which ($1.9 billion) represented a dividend obligation to the Department of Treasury that was paid on March 31, 2015. Fannie Mae's net income for 2014 of $14.2 billion was only a fraction of the $84 billion the GSE reported for 2013, according to FHFA.

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