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The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis.It authorized the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee up to $300 billion in new 30-year fixed rate mortgages for subprime borrowers if lenders wrote down principal loan balances to 90 percent of current appraisal value.
Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE Banking Act of 2019), a bill to improve access to banking and financial services for cannabis businesses; Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008, a bill to required states to create a Mortgage Loan Originator (MLO) licensing and registration system
In 1982, Congress passed the Alternative Mortgage Transactions Parity Act (AMTPA), which allowed non-federally chartered housing creditors to write adjustable-rate mortgages. Among the new mortgage loan types created and gaining in popularity in the early 1980s were adjustable-rate, option adjustable-rate, balloon-payment and interest-only ...
The Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) is a 1994 amendment to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) that protects consumers from predatory mortgage lending. Expanded significantly in 2010 ...
A mortgage is a legal instrument of the common law which is used to create a security interest in real property held by a lender as a security for a debt, usually a mortgage loan. Hypothec is the corresponding term in civil law jurisdictions, albeit with a wider sense, as it also covers non-possessory lien.
Reverse mortgage: A reverse mortgage is a loan taken out against your current home, in which a lender pays you monthly installments; these must be repaid, or the home surrendered to the lender ...
The Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97–320, H.R. 6267, enacted October 15, 1982) is an Act of Congress that deregulated savings and loan associations and allowed banks to provide adjustable-rate mortgage loans.
Often, a mortgage is considered non-conforming because it's for an amount higher than the conforming loan limit ($766,550 for most mortgages in 2024), also known as a jumbo loan.