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Mortgage relief: Partial solution better than none

February 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News

Tweet By John Schoen | http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com   “As the clock ticks down on year-long negotiations on a sweeping mortgage relief settlement, the architects of the joint state-federal plan believe it would be better for homeowners to get a partial deal than nothing at all, according to sources close to the talks. Facing a Monday deadline, attorneys general in all 50 [...]

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Proposed mortgage settlement offers little relief for homeowners

January 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, Foreclosure, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer | msnbc.com “A proposed $25 billion settlement between five big banks, state attorneys general and the Obama administration may help resolve some of the thornier legal issues surrounding the mortgage mess that caused the housing market to collapse. It will do relatively little to stop the ongoing wave of [...]

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Bank of America agrees to $335M mortgage settlement

December 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Foreclosure, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By: Tampa Bay Business Journal   “Bank of America agreed to pay $335 million to settle allegations that Countrywide Financial discriminated against black and Hispanic mortgage borrowers. The alleged discrimination happened before BofA purchased Countrywide in 2008, according to the Charlotte Business Journal. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), based in Charlotte, N.C., is the largest bank by deposit [...]

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5 nasty surprises that can stop your home purchase cold

December 5th, 2011 · No Comments · loan modification, News, Short Sales, Uncategorized

Tweet By Marilyn Lewis of MSN Real Estate: “When a seller wants to sell a home and finds a buyer who wants to buy it, you’d think they’d have a deal. What could go wrong? These days, plenty. In this tough financial climate, there are both longstanding pitfalls and a crop of new ones. At best, these can [...]

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Barbershop investigators moved to help with backlog of real estate cases

November 26th, 2011 · No Comments · News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet By Mark Puente, Times Staff Writer   “They were trained to check for head lice in combs. Now they will tackle a backlog of real estate investigations. State regulators have pulled five investigators out of the state’s barbershops to help supplement 33 other Department of Business and Professional Regulation investigators already working more than 700 [...]

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Florida bank failures cost FDIC $10 billion

October 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Commercial Loans, Foreclosure, loan modification, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet by Jeff Ostrowski | Palm Beach Post   “ore than 50 Florida-based banks have failed since August 2008, and the fallout has totaled $10.1 billion to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s Deposit Insurance Fund, by my calculations. BankUnited’s outsized failure accounted for nearly half those losses, but Orion Bank and Peoples First Community Bank [...]

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South Florida’s judiciary debates foreclosure crisis, solutions

October 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet by Kim Miller | Palm Beach Post   “Judges and attorneys in some of the nation’s busiest foreclosure courtrooms are meeting this morning to discuss South Florida’s ongoing housing crisis and its impact on the judiciary and economy. About 250 people are in a filled-to-capacity room at the Broward Center of Performing Arts for [...]

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Versailles mortgage fraud allegations

October 18th, 2011 · No Comments · News, Real Estate Law, Uncategorized

Tweet by Kim Miller   “An attorney doing title work on homes in Wellington’s high-end Versailles community was indicted last week for her part in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme that bilked lenders out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kimberly S. Daise, who has been a member of the Florida Bar since 1989 and [...]

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Five years after peak, still no bottom seen in housing market

September 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Tweet By Roland Jones “Five years after U.S. home prices peaked, overall expectations for the nation’s housing market are still dimming, according to a survey of economists, real estate experts and investment strategists. Although some local real estate markets are stable or strong, more broadly, fundamentals in the U.S. housing market remain very weak, despite record-low [...]

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Foreclosed homeowner squats her way back in

August 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Foreclosure, News, Uncategorized

Tweet “Wells Fargo offers new loan terms after several high-profile antics” By Chris Roberts NBCBayArea.com “Tanya Dennis is finally home again. As in, she owns the house she’s lived in for 27 years again — after breaking into it and living there illegally following a foreclosure. Dennis, 63, a former vice-principal at Oakland’s Castlemont High, had [...]

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