Flip Tax for Residential Co-ops Must be Retained
Many of Riverdale’s cooperatives have benefitted from the use of flip tax income for some time. Doing so helps enable the improvements and capital projects that are necessary for the perpetuity of each property. The authority and autonomy that each building or its Board of Directors currently has to enact a flip tax based upon the needs and desires of individual cooperators must not be undermined. But, now The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is proposing a guidance (rule) that would restrict Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks from investing in mortgages in buildings with private transfer (Flip Tax) fees
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