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ARTICLE · 14 OCTOBER 2021

CFPB Sues Reverse-Mortgage Lender For Deceptive Practices

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The CFPB charged a mortgage lender with using exaggerated and misleading home estimates to encourage customers to take out reverse mortgages.

United StatesFinance and Banking

The CFPB charged a mortgage lender with using exaggerated and misleading home estimates to encourage customers to take out reverse mortgages.

In a Complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the CFPB alleged that the company falsely claimed in its reverse mortgage marketing materials to have made "every attempt to ensure" that its home value estimates were accurate. The CFPB claimed that the midpoint and high-end estimates the company provided were between 18 and 28 percent inflated on average, with the company having conducted no analysis in connection with the advertised estimates. The CFPB stated that the misrepresentations were material because they could cause reasonable customers to think that they could make greater gains from the reverse mortgages than were actually possible. The CFPB also alleged that the company's deceptive conduct violated a December 2016 consent order that banned it from engaging in deceptive

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