Real estate settlement costs : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing of the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, first and second sessions on H.R. 9989: a bill to further the national housing goal of encouraging homeownership by regulating certain lending practices and closing and settlement procedures in Federally related mortgage transactions to the end that unnecessary costs and difficulties of purchasing housing are minimized, and for other purposes.--H.R. 1183: a bill to regulate closing costs and settlement procedures in Federally related mortgage transactions.--H.R. 11460:a bill to improve the service which is provided to consumers in connection with escrow accounts on real estate mortgages, to prevent abuses of the escrow system, to require that interest be paid on escrow deposits, and for other purposes.--H.R. 12066:a bill to regulate closing costs and settlement procedures in Federally related mortgage transactions, and for other purposes. December 4, and 5, 1973, and January 29, and 30, 1974.