New Fannie Mae Servicing Guide prohibits banks from lowering short sales commissions
Print This Post On Tuesday, February 22nd, 2009, Fannie Mae released an announcement with updates to the Servicing Guide used by banks in the U.S.
One of the sections that will impact short sale sellers and REO agents nationwide is the prohibition of banks making the sale of a short sale conditional upon the lowering of commissions.
If you’ve ever listed your home for a short sale, you’ve probably seen the following statement in REALTOR remarks:
COOPERATIVE COMPENSATION OFFER SUBJECT TO COURT OR LENDER APPROVAL AND MAY BE ADJUSTED.
Well now it now also violates Fannie Mae guidelines for banks set forth in its Servicing Guide:
Servicing Guide, Part VII, Section 504.02: Contacting Selected Borrowers
No Negotiation of Preforeclosure Sales Commission
Effective March 1, 2009, closing of preforeclosure sales may not be conditioned upon a reduction of the total commission to be paid to real estate agents to a level below what was negotiated by the listing agent with the borrower, unless the fee exceeds 6 percent of the sales price of the property in aggregate. Servicers are reminded that they must continue to obtain any approvals that may be required by interested third parties in connection with preforeclosure sales.
New Fannie Mae Servicing Guideline
Link to the whole Announcement 9-03
Why do you care as a seller? Isn’t it good to pay less commission?
This is good news for everyone: home sellers, REO agents, consumers, and banks in the long run, because it removes a large impediment that some agents had showing short sales. Not only are short sales difficult and painstaking, but there was also the chance that the selling agent would make less than the listed commission.
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Thanks for your comment, Robert. I think if you read the entirety of my blog you will see that I try to post the current news and views about the market. You are welcome to post your analysis of what the market will do. My readers welcome input from all sides.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!
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Great blog post. The media will never pick up on this because it is more complicated than a soundbite.
If I may add that with the number of outstanding loans that are scheduled to reset in the next couple of years, decreasing home values and stricter lending guidelines, the rate of foreclosures are on track to peak in 2010. Short sales have become a growing niche for Real Estate Agents to sell homes before they become bank owned.
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1/3 on the market are foreclosed or short sales – wow. It’s nice that you research this information. The agents who represent home sellers prob don’t share that info with buyers. Take care.
Dear Patrick,
Great article! I agree with you. I also would like to add couple more alternatives to those homeowners who want to stay in their homes.
There are two products those aren’t widely knowing and common in the market place. Trsutee Foreclosure Delays and Loan Re-Write.
Did you know that Homeowners are illegally being foreclosed on especially in Trustee States?
In Judicial Foreclosure states, a judge reviews the legality of the foreclosure proceedings to ensure the homeowner is being protected against greedy lenders and yet still the lenders are not properly following the foreclosure laws correctly (see this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=2).
In Trustee States, lenders employ a “third party” trustee company to replace the legal function of a judge and orchestrate the foreclosure process. If banks are not legally foreclosing when they know a judge reviews the case what do you think they are doing when they only have to go through a trustee that they pay? And what is more interesting, the trustee company is liable for the foreclosure proceedings but who is going after the trustee companies to review the legality of these foreclosure packages? You guess it! Yes, No one is..!
Did you know that a loan Re-Write program has the ability to reduce homeowner’s current loan balance down to the current market value at prime + 3%?
Here is an example: You owe $500K on your home but it is only worth $350k. Investors will bulk purchase the note from your current lender and re-write it back to you at $350k, saving you (the homeowner) over $150k!
I hope this helps!
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Yamen Elasadi
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This is good news… Foreclosure market needs movement to make more money and start leaving this situation
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