Any lender that requires, as a prerequisite to its lending money for the purchase of real property, that private mortgage insurance be secured to insure a certain amount of the lender’s interest in the property shall return to the person who paid the premium, or other person entitled thereto, any portion of the premium for such insurance that is not used to secure insurance for the lender’s interest in the property.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 6.2-413

  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or other legal or commercial entity. See Virginia Code 6.2-100
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

1980, c. 748, § 6.1-2.9:1; 1990, c. 7; 2010, c. 794.