The online real estate marketplace is accused of providing incentives to affiliated real estate agents to “steer” homebuyers toward mortgages from Zillow Home Loans.
Select Portfolio Servicing allegedly charged borrowers up to $15 in fees to make a mortgage payment online or by phone when its actual cost of processing was less than 50 cents per transaction.
Even if the Trump administration initiates a massive reduction-in-force at the CFPB, industry attorneys believe the bureau won’t shut entirely and will still be able to do its job.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a lower court’s dismissal and held that Unison’s equity-sharing agreement meets the definition of a reverse mortgage under the Washington Reverse Mortgage Act.
The court found that ESSA Bank & Trust hasn’t substantially complied with the DOJ’s 2023 consent decree, contrary to assertions by the Trump administration.