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Regulatory Changes and Your Real Estate Transaction As a result of circumstances leading to the housing bubble burst in 2008, regulatory changes were designed to protect consumers from unfair loans and scams. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is implementing the ability-to-repay/qualified mortgage rule, which creates a 43 percent debt-to-income (DTI) ratio for banks to […]