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Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

What You Need to Know about Freddie Mac’s Recent Guide Bulletin

Freddie Mac published a Guide Bulletin on Aug. 26 that imposes new requirements on mortgages originated on or after Oct. 1, 2025. These requirements should be familiar to those who also originate Fannie Mae loans....more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Fannie Mae: New Title, Closing Requirements for Multifamily Mortgages

For the past few years, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Finance Agency have investigated suspect fraudulent deals. After the great financial crisis, several regulations were implemented to increase the number...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Fannie Mae Updates Preferred Equity Guidelines: What You Need to Know

Fannie Mae published its Preferred Equity Guide Update (25-06) and its Preferred Equity Checklist (Form 6441) in mid-April. Although unpublished iterations have been circulating for the past two years, lenders and law firms...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Final Interagency Guidance on Reconsiderations of Value of Residential Real Estate

While we reported in our last Cabinet News & Views on the final rule regarding quality control standards for AVMs which will take effect one year after publication in the Federal Register (i.e., it has not yet been...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

LMA Senior/Mezzanine Facility Drafting Guide and LMA Intercreditor Agreements for Real Estate Finance Transactions – Updates...

The Loan Market Association has just published updates to its (a) drafting guide for its senior/mezzanine single currency term facility agreement for real estate finance multi-property investment transactions and (b) its...more

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CFPB Grants No-Action Letter for Proposed Small-Dollar Credit Product

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In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) granted a no-action letter (NAL) regarding a proposed small-dollar credit product and sought comment on the CFPB’s plan to study how consumers locate, comprehend...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

“Drop and Swap” — Tax-Friendly Handling of a Dissolving LLC’s Real Property

A common LLC problem: LLC members are ready to call it quits on the LLC and divide their interests in the LLC’s real property. Some members may want to sell, receive cash, and recognize gains for tax purposes. Other...more

Goodwin

Financial Services Weekly Roundup: Priming The Pump – Additional Actions To Combat COVID-19

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Priming the Pump. As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), consistent with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), took additional...more

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EPA Releases New Guidance on CERCLA Landowner Liability Protections

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EPA recently issued a guidance document (the “Guidance”) that supersedes and clarifies its 2003 guidance on what prospective purchasers of real estate must do to qualify for one of CERCLA’s three landowner liability...more

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Second Round of Treasury Guidance: Key Provisions

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The long-awaited second round of Opportunity Zone-related Proposed Regulations were issued Wednesday, April 17, 2019. It is clear that Treasury’s goals, in its second round of guidance, were to: 1. Provide clarity and/or...more

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Stamp duty land tax reforms

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Stamp duty land tax – Reform of charging provisions for non-residential property - In his Budget 2016 speech, the Chancellor announced changes to the rules for calculating the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) charged on...more

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