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Proposal to Revamp RESPA Rules Continues to Face Opposition.(Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act)
The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to issue a final rule to simplify the mortgage application and settlement process soon.
President George Bush is talking about Department of Housing and Urban Development's efforts to simplify the mortgage process when he discusses his administrations efforts to increase homeownership and stimulate economic growth.
The settlement sheets and disclosures make "you nervous. We're simplifying it," he said during a campaign stop in Merrimac, N.H. The President also told the U.S. Conference of Mayors "HUD is working to simplify the contracts and to make easier and less expensive for people to enter the process of buying a home."
HUD's proposal to revamp its Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act regulations is also highlighted in the annual budget proposal the President sent to Congress on Feb. 2.
The budget documents indicate the RESPA rule will provide "consumers with upfront disclosures of all costs associated with obtaining a federally related mortgage loan in understandable terms prior to the payment of non-refundable fees."
The budget documents also indicates the rule will strengthen RESPA so that lenders will be penalized if they fail to accurately disclose mortgage broker fees, interest rates, balloon payments and prepayment penalties.
"The Department issued a proposed rule covering RESPA reform in fiscal year 2002 and anticipates a final rule in FY 2004," HUD says in a summary of its budget. FY 2004 ends Sept. 30, but some sources are expecting the final rule could be issued in the next 60 days.
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