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Title 12 — Banks and Banking

Chapter 34A — Appraisal Subcommittee of Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

§ 3355. Broker price opinions

Statutory text

(a)

General prohibition

In conjunction with the purchase of a consumer’s principal dwelling, broker price opinions may not be used as the primary basis to determine the value of a piece of property for the purpose of a loan origination of a residential mortgage loan secured by such piece of property.

(b)

Broker price opinion defined

For purposes of this section, the term “broker price opinion” means an estimate prepared by a real estate broker, agent, or sales person that details the probable selling price of a particular piece of real estate property and provides a varying level of detail about the property’s condition, market, and neighborhood, and information on comparable sales, but does not include an automated valuation model, as defined in section 3354(c) 1 of this title.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989

    Pub. L. 101–73 title XI § 1126 · 103 Stat. 183

    Enacted · 12 U.S.C. § 3355

    (Pub. L. 101–73, title XI, § 1126, as added Pub. L. 111–203, title XIV, § 1473(r), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2198.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–73, title XI, § 1126, as added Pub. L. 111–203, title XIV, § 1473(r), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2198.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 3354(c) of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), probably means section 3354(d) of this title, which defines “automated valuation model”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date on which final regulations implementing such section take effect, or on the date that is 18 months after the designated transfer date if such regulations have not been issued by that date, see section 1400(c) of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as an Effective Date of 2010 Amendment note under section 1601 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–73, title XI, § 1126, as added Pub. L. 111–203, title XIV, § 1473(r), , 124 Stat. 2198.)

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