The U.S. Senate has passed H.R. 3700, the “Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act,” by unanimous consent. This legislation includes reforms to current Federal Housing Administration restrictions on condominium financing, among other provisions, and is long supported by both C.A.R. and NAR.
Changes include efforts to make FHA’s recertification process “substantially less burdensome,” while lowering FHA’s current owner-occupancy requirement from 50 percent to 35 percent. The bill also requires FHA to replace existing policy on transfer fees with the less-restrictive model already in place at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
C.A.R. would like to thank the 19,000-plus California REALTORS® who responded to NAR’s Call-for-Action and urged their senators to pass this legislation and offer relief to home buyers.
What makes REALTORS® so strong politically is the number of constituents we have in every congressional district. Even if your business model is not based on condominium or Rural Housing Service transactions, all REALTORS® need to band together to support homebuyers to help ensure future transactions, and that is what California REALTORS® did with H.R. 3700.
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