United States Accountability Office (GAO) Reports to Congressional Committe that Appraisal Subcommittee needs to improve Monitoring Procedures
What GAO Found “GAO found that more than 70 percent of residential mortgages made from 2006 through 2009 were $250,000 or less—the regulatory threshold at or below which appraisals are not required for transactions involving federally regulated lenders. In recent years, however, the threshold has had a limited impact on the proportion of mortgages with […]