Short Sale Transparency Act of 2013

Short Sale Transparency Act of 2013 - Directs the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to require the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), in any case in which one or the other denies the purchase of a residential mortgage loan made to finance the purchase, under a short sale, of a covered dwelling on the basis that the purchase price involved is insufficient, to disclose promptly to the prospective seller the amount by which the purchase price was less than the minimum purchase price sufficient for approval of the purchase of such mortgage.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1335 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1335

To require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to disclose the minimum purchase 
   price that such an enterprise will accept on the short sale of a 
  residence financed by a mortgage purchased by such an enterprise in 
     order to make short sales a viable alternative to foreclosure.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2013

   Mrs. Davis of California introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to disclose the minimum purchase 
   price that such an enterprise will accept on the short sale of a 
  residence financed by a mortgage purchased by such an enterprise in 
     order to make short sales a viable alternative to foreclosure.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Short Sale Transparency Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. SHORT SALE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT.

    (a) Disclosure.--The Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency 
shall require the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal 
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, in any case in which such Association 
or Corporation denies the purchase of a residential mortgage loan made 
to finance the purchase, under a short sale, of a covered dwelling on 
the basis that the purchase price involved in the short sale is 
insufficient, to promptly disclose to the prospective seller of the 
covered dwelling the amount by which such purchase price was less than 
the minimum purchase price sufficient for such Association or 
Corporation to approve purchase of such mortgage.
    (b) Definitions.--For purposes of this section, the following 
definitions shall apply:
            (1) Short sale.--The term ``short sale'' means, with 
        respect to a residential mortgage loan on a covered dwelling, a 
        purchase of the dwelling that will result in proceeds in an 
        amount that is less than the remaining amount due under the 
        residential mortgage loan on the covered dwelling.
            (2) Covered dwelling.--The term ``covered dwelling'' means 
        a residential real property that--
                    (A) consists of from one to four dwelling units; 
                and
                    (B) is subject to a mortgage, deed or trust, or 
                other security interest that secures a residential 
                mortgage loan on which the mortgagor is delinquent on 
                payments due under the mortgage loan.
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