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title: "Compliance News: FHLMC Bulletin 2017-28 Updates (Land Trusts and Texas Home Equity Loans)"
description: "On December 14, 2017 FHLMC published Bulletin 2017-28 (available at: http://www.freddiemac.com/singlefamily/news/2017/1214_guide_bulletin_2017-28.html?attr=rssSFNews), which provides new guidance concerning land trusts (due to the fact that special negotiated terms of business are no longer necessary to sell loans involving a land trust to FHLMC),…"
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# [Compliance News: FHLMC Bulletin 2017-28 Updates (Land Trusts and Texas Home Equity Loans)](https://compliance.docutech.com/2017/12/15/compliance-news-fhlmc-bulletin-2017-28-updates-land-trusts-texas-home-equity-loans)

 Written by [Will Newsom](https://compliance.docutech.com/author/will-newsom) | Dec 15, 2017 8:00:00 AM

On December 14, 2017 FHLMC published Bulletin 2017-28 (available at: [http://www.freddiemac.com/singlefamily/news/2017/1214\_guide\_bulletin\_2017-28.html?attr=rssSFNews](http://www.freddiemac.com/singlefamily/news/2017/1214_guide_bulletin_2017-28.html?attr=rssSFNews)), which provides new guidance concerning land trusts (due to the fact that special negotiated terms of business are no longer necessary to sell loans involving a land trust to FHLMC), as well as announcing updates to FNMA/FHLMC Forms 3044.1, 3185, 3244.1, 3522.44, and 3528.44 due to the recent approved amendments to Texas’ Constitution (see [http://blog.docutechcorp.com/document-updates-various-texas-home-equity-loan-documents](http://blog.docutechcorp.com/document-updates-various-texas-home-equity-loan-documents) for details).

We are currently reviewing these changes to determine any impact to our document library and/or systems and evaluating any necessary changes. Any modifications we make will be announced on our website ([http://blog.docutechcorp.com/category/document-updates](http://blog.docutechcorp.com/category/document-updates)).

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