This article was just posted on Housing Wire.com.
Interesting remifications for the Seller Finance business and the Note Buying business.
Draw your own conclusions.
Federal Reserve signs off on appraisal rule change, making change official
For the first time since 1994, certain home sales of $400,000 and under will soon not need an appraisal after federal regulators approved a proposal to increase the threshold at which residential home sales require an appraisal.
Last November, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve released a proposal that would increase the appraisal requirement from $250,000 to $400,000, meaning that certain home sales of $400,000 and below would no longer require an appraisal.
The agencies deliberated the rule for nearly a year, taking into consideration the more than 560 comments the agencies received about the rule change.
Last month, the FDIC and OCC signed off on the rule, but were still waiting on the Fed to approve the rule change as well. Read More…