New RESPA Regulations for Mortgage Finance: Are You Ready?
Complying With the Sweeping Changes in Real Estate Settlement Procedures
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A
Conducted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Recorded event now available
This CLE webinar will examine the comprehensive new RESPA rules, essential implementation issues, and challenges/legal risks facing lenders, brokers and closing agents under these sweeping changes to RESPA.
Description
Sweeping and comprehensive changes to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) include substantial changes to the good faith estimate (“GFE”) and HUD-1 Settlement Statement forms. New RESPA rules not only affect lenders and closing attorneys but also title companies and mortgage brokers.
Among other changes, lenders must provide borrowers with a firm origination charge that includes all fees now separately itemized on the HUD statement. Lenders also must provide a firm quote for closing costs that cannot vary by more than 10% at closing.
HUD will restrain enforcement efforts during 1st quarter 2010 for entities that are making “good faith efforts” to comply with the new rules. Lenders and closing agents must ensure that their investments and compliance efforts meet this good faith test as they work toward achieving full compliance.
Listen as our authoritative panel of mortgage banking attorneys explains the sweeping new RESPA rules and their impact on lenders, closing agents and mortgage brokers.
Outline
- New HUD-1/1A settlement statements
- Cost of loan — comparison to GFE
- HUD guidance
- New Good Faith Estimate (GFE)
- Covered loans
- Key loan terms
- Closing costs — cost guarantee
- Revisions to GFE — changed circumstances
- Discounts
- Affiliated business relationships
- Obligations of mortgage brokers
- Impact on title companies
- HUD Guidance
- Key compliance challenges
- Disclosure issues
- Changes in terms
- Curing potential violations
- Enforcement and penalties
- “Good faith” compliance efforts
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the key changes to the HUD-1 statement?
- What constitutes "changed circumstances" that allow revisions to the GFE?
- What are affiliated business relationships and how are they regulated?
- How will HUD evaluate a lender's "good faith efforts" to comply with the new rules?
- How do the RESPA rules affect mortgage brokers and closing agents?
Faculty
Richard J. Andreano,
Partner
Patton & Boggs, Washington, D.C.
He offers clients nearly 25 years of experience and a thorough understanding of issues facing the financial services, mortgage banking and consumer finance industries. He advises lenders, brokers, title companies, real estate professionals and other settlement providers regarding regulatory compliance and transactional matters, FHA issues, and administrative enforcement actions and investigations.
Donald E. Partington,
Executive Vice President, Legal and Strategic Affairs
Fidelity National Title Group, Santa Ana, Calif.
He is responsible for coordinating the company’s strategic product and process development and has been a counsel in the title insurance industry since 1978. He is a member of ALTA’s Task Force on RESPA Reform and Implementation and has made presentations at HUD, Congressional panels and the OMB on RESPA. He is a frequent lecturer on real estate issues for the ABA and state bar associations.
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