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Legal Update: Flip Taxes and Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac

Residential Real Estate Lawyer Legal Update Flip Tax

Sometimes government’s attempt to resolve problems unintentionally overreaches, and has an unintended impact.  That is the case with a recent round of proposed rule-making from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (the regulators of Fannie, Freddie, and 12 other Federal Home Loan Banks).  FHFA was trying to redress abuses by unscrupulous developers (imagine that) who were building and …

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