CFPB to Closely Scrutinize How Mortgage Servicers Handle Borrowers Exiting Forbearance
Industry Update
November 11, 2021
Source: Mortgage Orb
As the COVID-19 related foreclosure moratoriums wind to a close and mortgage servicers brace for a potential wave of defaults, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced that it will be fully enforcing the foreclosure protections put in place in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 – and that a relaxing of the rules under Regulation X that took effect in April 2020 “will no longer apply.”
Under the protections put in place by the CFPB in the wake of the Great Recession, servicers must offer borrowers who are in financial distress the chance to find alternatives to foreclosure before losing their home.
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