Servicing Management Default Underwriter: Fannie Mae Tool Streamlines Foreclosures
fanni Fannie Mae Tool Streamlines Foreclosure Prevention Efforts WASHINGTON, DC – Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTC) introduced Servicing Management Default Underwriter™ (SMDU™), a tool to help mortgage servicers work faster and more consistently with homeowners to prevent foreclosure. This technology, a counterpart to Fannie Mae’s widely used Desktop Underwriter® for mortgage originations, breaks new ground by evaluating … Read more
Colorado: Banks’ Right to Foreclose in Dispute
Banks’ right to foreclose in dispute The bank foreclosing on an Aurora woman challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s foreclosure laws did not formally own the right to take her house until a month after it filed its case to do so, public real-estate records reviewed by The Denver Post show. Although a lawyer representing US … Read more
Crises Before and After the Creation of the Fed
Crises Before and After the Creation of the Fed The Federal Reserve was created 100 years ago in response to the harsh recession associated with the Panic of 1907. Comparing that recession with the Great Recession of 2007–09 suggests the Fed can mitigate downturns to some extent. A statistical analysis suggests that if a central … Read more
Debt Sold by Bank Of America and Citigroup Would Be JUNK Without Government Guarantees
Government Chooses Big Banks Over the Little Guy … Year After Year by WashingtonsBlog Bloomberg reports: *** In a March 27 report, Moody’s displays a bar chart of its credit ratings for the banks in blue. In green bars, it shows Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo would be rated two grades lower if the taxpayer … Read more
Mbaku et al v. Bank of America: Second Federal Suit Challenging Colorado Foreclosure Law Emerges
Second federal suit challenging Colorado foreclosure law emerges A second federal lawsuit contesting the constitutionality of Colorado’s foreclosure laws has emerged. Unlike the case of an Aurora woman who obtained an interim federal injunction against the foreclosure auction of her house, the other involves a federal judge who decided a Denver man’s 14th Amendment guarantee … Read more
FORECLOSURE BACKLOG REDUCTION PLAN FOR THE STATE COURTS SYSTEM: Recommendations of the Foreclosure Initiative Workgroup
FORECLOSURE BACKLOG REDUCTION PLAN FOR THE STATE COURTS SYSTEM Recommendations of the Foreclosure Initiative Workgroup EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Recognizing that a significant number of mortgage foreclosure cases are pending in the trial courts (approximately 358,000 as of February 2013) and that an estimated 680,000 additional foreclosure cases will be filed between FY 2012/13 and FY 2015/16, … Read more
Fla. Foreclosure Workgroup Questioned, Called Bias
Fla. foreclosure workgroup questioned, called bias A handful of foreclosure defense attorneys are raising issues with the foreclosure reduction plan recommended by the Foreclosure Initiative Workgroup. Some said they were unaware the workgroup of judges and court administrators had even been assembled and are concerned they weren’t given a chance to have input about the … Read more
The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt
The 182 Percent Loan: How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt by Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmidt, ProPublica This story was co-produced with Marketplace. Listen to their coverage. One day late last year, Katrina Sutton stood at a gas pump outside Atlanta and swiped her debit card. Insufficient funds. But that … Read more
Lender Processing Services (LPS) Agrees to $14M Securities Fraud Settlement
“Gardner said the case hit a potential challenge in November 2012, when Lorraine Brown, a former chief executive of Lender Processing’s DocX LLC subsidiary, pleaded guilty to engaging in a scheme to file fraudulent documents in foreclosures. As part of her plea, Brown admitted taking steps to conceal the actions of herself and others from, … Read more
Toxic Titles: Buyer Beware – Problems with Foreclosure Purchases Can Haunt You Years Later
Buyer beware: problem foreclosure purchase LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – If you’ve ever owned property, you know how it’s supposed to work. You pay for it, you get the title. And you would think that property’s yours, right? Not so fast. Four In Your Corner’s Liza Fernandez introduces us to a couple who bought a lot … Read more
MERS CoV: Deadly SARS-Like Virus Spreads To France And Saudi Arabia
Deadly SARS-Like Virus Spreads To France And Saudi Arabia Looks like Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) may have some competition… The H7N9 bird flu virus in China isn’t the only scary new virus on the docket this spring. A second new virus, similar to SARS and named Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV), has … Read more
Steady Stream of Lawyers Pour Out of Woodwork to Offer Help in Challenge of Colorado Foreclosure Law
Lawyers offer help in challenge of Colorado foreclosure law More than a dozen lawyers have surfaced with offers to help an Aurora woman in her constitutional challenge of Colorado’s foreclosure laws, a case she has battled on her own for about two years. After a federal judge’s temporary injunction Monday that looks to take on … Read more
PB Post Editorial on Foreclosure Bill HB 87 / SB 1666: With Friends Like Ms. Bondi in Tallahassee, Banks Hardly Need Another Gift
Editorial: Scott should veto the Legislature’s foreclosure bill The Legislature finally has passed a bill to ease Florida’s foreclosure crisis. The problem is, it’s a bad bill that Gov. Scott should veto. Rep. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, sponsor of House Bill 87, believes that giving banks the right to seek a quicker hearing would get the … Read more
Abigail Field: NYAG’s Standing to Sue BofA
NYAG’s Standing to Sue BofA NY AG Eric Schneiderman’s suit to bring meaning to the servicing standards of the National Mortgage Enforcement Fraud rises and falls on how the D.C. Circuit interprets two provisions of the Consent Judgment. In my last post, I explained that one provision–the one sentence section II–seems to require that the … Read more
The Constitutionality of Colorado Foreclosure Law: US Bank Walks Away from Foreclosure on Aurora Woman
US Bank walks away from foreclosure on Aurora woman US Bank on Friday backed down from its efforts to foreclose on an Aurora woman whose federal court battle against it has taken on the constitutionality of Colorado’s foreclosure laws. Just days after lawyers for the bank told a federal judge they’ve always had the original … Read more
Michigan AG Informs National Mortgage Settlement Monitor About Concerns with Banks’ Settlement Compliance
Schuette Informs National Mortgage Settlement Monitor About Concerns with Banks’ Settlement Compliance LANSING -Attorney General Bill Schuette today sent a letter to Joseph A. Smith, Jr. head of the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight to alert him to concerns that certain terms of the National Mortgage Settlement are not being met by the banks that … Read more
Florida HB 87 / SB 1666, Homeowners, and the Foreclosure Inferno
Florida HB 87 / SB 1666, Homeowners, and the Foreclosure Inferno By Michael Collins A bill passed last week by the Florida legislature offers efficiencies and advantages to banks that may launch a major increase in foreclosures in the state known for its volatile real estate market. The only thing standing in the way is … Read more
Bank of America to Eric Schneiderman: You Can’t Sue Us for Violations of The National Mortgage Settlement
“In all that work and in related communications with your office, there was never any suggestion that there was any concern that Bank of America had engaged in ‘flagrant violations’ or any ‘pattern’ of violation that has now been suggested” ~ BofA: Schneiderman Has No Rights to Sue Bank of America is pushing back against … Read more
Fannie Mae to Pay Treasury $59.4 Billion After Record Profit
Fannie Mae to Pay Treasury $59.4 Billion After Record Profit Fannie Mae (FNMA), the mortgage-financier seized by U.S. regulators in 2008, will pay the Treasury Department $59.4 billion after reporting a record quarterly profit driven by rising home prices and declining delinquencies. The government-sponsored enterprise, which is operating under U.S. conservatorship, had net income of … Read more
Independent Foreclosure Review Payments Exceed $2 Billion
Independent Foreclosure Review Payments Exceed $2 Billion WASHINGTON—More than 2.2 million people have cashed or deposited more than $2 billion in checks related to the Independent Foreclosure Review Payment Agreement through May 9, 2013. To date, more than 3.9 million checks, totaling more than $3.4 billion, have been sent to eligible borrowers. The first wave … Read more
