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Realtors® Join MBA, NAHB to Stress Need for Stability during CFPB Supreme Court Battle


WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- With the Supreme Court set to consider a constitutional challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the coming months, the National Association of Realtors®, Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Home Builders Association have filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to consider possible disruptions to the economy and housing market in any decision. The groups ? which comprise some of the most influential entities in the real estate industry ? specifically argue that while problematic provisions surrounding the Bureau's leadership structure may exist, invalidating the CFPB as a whole would cause undue economic turmoil and instability.

National Association of Realtors logo (PRNewsFoto/National Association of Realtors)

"Dodd Frank was designed with an explicit intent to 'promote financial stability,' a benefit its authors believed would extend to U.S. consumers and our nation's economy. If that mission is to remain consistent, the Supreme Court should honor the wishes of Congress and act deliberately to avoid unnecessary market disruption," said NAR President Vince Malta, broker at Malta & Co., Inc., in San Francisco, CA. "Drastic action to invalidate the CFPB could have broad impact on U.S. consumers extending far beyond the question of Bureau leadership."

The Court will consider whether the Presidentially-appointed CFPB director holds undue power given the President's limited authority to remove the individual from office. Petitioner Seila Law argues the Bureau's structure violates the Constitution's separation of powers provisions.

Over the past decade, the CFPB has issued various regulations impacting the real estate industry and consumer mortgages. While the industry has engaged with the Bureau during its rulemaking processes, it has also invested billions of dollars to comply with CFPB's new rules, regulations and related guidance.

"Today, nearly all residential real estate finance transactions in the United States are undertaken in reliance on the rights, obligations and protections set forth in... guidance issued by the CFPB," the amicus briefing reads. "Striking down [its] entirety, or declaring it unconstitutional without addressing severance, would eliminate detailed, technical regulations that govern past and future real estate finance transactions... Such an outcome would cause significant disruption to the American economy, overturning regulatory guideposts, upsetting settled expectations and creating substantial regulatory uncertainty in our housing markets... The Court should avoid causing such harm."

The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.4 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

 

SOURCE National Association of Realtors


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