The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released an updated version of a booklet that's intended to help consumers comparison-shop for a mortgage.
Much of the 49-page publication, "
Shopping for Your Home Loan: HUD's Settlement Cost Booklet," is devoted to the new standardized Good Faith Estimate and HUD-1 settlement statement forms that lenders must begin using on Jan. 1.
The forms and other changes to implementation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) are intended to
help consumers comparison shop. HUD believes the new RESPA rules, which encourage lenders to package settlement services like title insurance with loans, will
save consumers an average of nearly $700 in costs and fees per mortgage.
Check out the new RESPA rules.
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