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CFPB Cracks Down on Deceptive Contract Terms

Appraisal Buzz

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued “ CFPB Circular 2024-03: Unlawful and Unenforceable Contract Terms and Conditions ,” warning against the use of unlawful or unenforceable terms and conditions in contracts for consumer financial products or services.

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Housing market outlook for 2021…and beyond

Housing Wire

average during the 2010 to 2019 time period. Using CoreLogic TrueStandings data, we estimate that there will be about 20 million home mortgages outstanding at the start of 2021, with a contract interest rate of 4% or higher. This would be a percentage point lower than the 4.1%

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Pending home sales up slightly in September: NAR

Housing Wire

Despite the slight gain, pending contracts remain at historically low levels due to the highest mortgage rates in 20 years,” Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist said in a statement. They dropped below 4 million for the first time since October 2010, she added. Year over year, all four regions saw declining transactions.

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Robert Toll, co-founder of Toll Brothers, dies at 81

Housing Wire

After starting with two model colonial-style homes in suburban Philadelphia, Toll Brothers (TOL) would expand across the country under Robert Toll, who served as the company’s chairman and CEO until 2010. The company went public in 1986. billion in sales and more than $1 billion in net income. “By far the worst.

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CoreLogic projects low mortgage rates and high prices into 2023

Housing Wire

over the next three years – nearly a percentage point lower than the average of the 2010-2019 decade. However, Nothaft expects that mortgages originated today, with a contract rate of 3% or lower, are more likely to have a relatively long life and lenders will not see them coming into refinance anytime soon.

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Pending home sales fell 7.1% in August

Housing Wire

An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001. Pending home sales, like new home sales, are based on contract signings. Existing home sales also fell in August, down 15.3% below the August 2022 level. The NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell to a reading of 71.8

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Celink awarded high net promoter score in recent customer survey

Housing Wire

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)s Home Equity Conversion Mortgage ( HECM ) servicing contract. oversees a dedicated NPS business practice that served 750 implementation projects between 2010 and 2020, but it elected not to share its revenue with the publication. Celink is the current holder of the U.S.

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