Enhanced consumer protections for mortgages?

August 25 2010

The Federal Reserve Board is proposing enhanced consumer protections and disclosures for home mortgage transactions.  Changes proposed include significant changes to Regulation Z (Truth in Lending).  The latest proposal would:

Improve the disclosures consumers receive for reverse mortgages and impose rules for reverse-mortgage advertising to ensure advertisements contain accurate and balanced information;

Prohibit certain unfair practices in the sale of financial products with reverse mortgages; 

Improve the disclosures that explain a consumer’s right to rescind certain mortgage transactions and clarify the responsibilities of the creditor if a consumer exercises the right; and

Ensure that consumers receive new disclosures when the parties agree to modify the key terms of an existing closed-end mortgage loan.  

The comment period ends 90 days after publication of the proposal in the Federal Register, which is expected shortly.

More info. http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20100816e.htm

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