(a) A residential mortgage lender or servicer licensed under this chapter may, under the authority of that license and subject to the provisions of this division, do both of the following:
(1) Engage as a principal in the business of buying from or selling to institutional investors residential mortgage loans by using or advancing one’s own funds.
(2) Engage, pursuant to a written agency contract with an institutional lender specified in paragraph (1), (2), or (4) of subdivision (k) of Section 50003, in the business of soliciting, processing applications, or applying residential loan underwriting criteria, but not engage in the business of brokerage services pursuant to this subdivision, for residential mortgage loans for that lender, using or advancing the funds of that lender, provided that no fees or charges may be demanded or collected by the residential mortgage lender licensee for any performance or service, except fees demanded by, or collected on behalf of, the institutional lender, and that the licensee gives a written disclosure to the borrower, as soon as practicable but prior to loan closing, identifying the licensee and stating that the licensee is not the lender in the transaction but has contracted to provide soliciting, processing, or underwriting services for the lender. Separate schedules of the number and principal amount of the loans processed and underwritten shall be included in the licensee’s annual report required by subdivision (a) of Section 50401.
(b) The act of soliciting other institutional lenders with whom a residential mortgage lender licensee has concluded an agency contract pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) for placement of a loan upon declination of that loan by another institutional lender contracted under paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), constitutes brokerage services, and may be pursued by the licensee only following execution of a loan brokerage agreement with the borrower as provided in this division.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 160, Sec. 58. (SB 36) Effective October 11, 2009.)