by Jeff Sorg | Aug 26, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. announced that Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Goldman) has reached agreements with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) (as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to resolve all federal and state...
by Jeff Sorg | Aug 14, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that Freedom Mortgage Corporation will pay $104,000 to settle allegations that it discriminated against mortgage loan applicants with disabilities by requiring them to...
by Jeff Sorg | Aug 14, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has found that Amerisave lured consumers by advertising misleading interest rates, locked them in with costly up-front fees, failed to honor its advertised rates, and then illegally...
by Jeff Sorg | Aug 8, 2014 | California Real Estate, Georgia Real Estate, Mortgage, Nevada Real Estate, Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Jeff Sorg, OnlineEd) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christy Romero, Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP”), announced charges against PED ABGHARI, also known as “Ted Allen,”...
by Jeff Sorg | Mar 14, 2014 | Oregon Real Estate, Real Estate
(Salem, OR) – After April 30, 2014, only pre-license education completed on or after January 1, 2013 will meet the education requirements for Oregon real estate licensing. Agency-approved pre-license education completed between July 1, 2001 and December 31,...