Seller-financed home sales are 'toxic transactions'
US consumer law body calls such deals similar to buying homes on instalment with a high-interest, long-term loan
New York
SELLER-FINANCED home sales are "toxic transactions", a prominent US consumer law organisation said on Thursday as it released a report and called for greater federal and state oversight of the sales. In its report, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) said many of the contracts in such transactions were "built to fail" and were predatory in nature - benefiting sellers at the expense of lower-income and minority buyers who could not qualify for mortgages.
Such a transaction, called a contract for deed or land contract, is similar to buying a home on an instalment plan, with a high-interest, long-term loan. For…
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