Topic
Foreclosures
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Rocky Mountain Real Estate Law
Colorado Foreclosure Initiative Abandoned; Proponents to Push for Legislative Change Instead
As we noted in a previous post, critics of Colorado’s foreclosure process have been pursuing various avenues to reform parts of that process. They have been particularly focused on the…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Real Estate Taxes Owed For Property Surrendered in Bankruptcy
By Bryan Fears
Perhaps the best feature of a personal bankruptcy is the opportunity to get a fresh start. That means discharging overwhelming debts that are eating up your monthly income, like medical…
PropertyProf Blog
Anacker et al. on Foreclosures of Minority-Owned Homes in Atlanta
By propertyprof
Katrin Anacker (George Mason), James Carr (Fannie Mae), & Archana Pradhan (National Community Reinvestment Coalition) have posted Analyzing Determinants of Foreclosure of Middle-Income Borrowers of Color in the Atlanta, GA…
PropertyProf Blog
Hasty on Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure
By propertyprof
Steven Hasty (Brooklyn - Student) has posted Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure by Funding Needed Repairs (Journal of Law & Policy) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:Among the victims of the current…
Crunched Credit
Massachusetts Lenders Can Find Solace in Eaton v. Federal National Mortgage Association
We previously covered the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decisions in Ibanez and Bevilacqua on these pages, in which the court gave Massachusetts lenders agita when it upheld lower court decisions…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit Holds That Banks Can Foreclose In Michigan By Advertisement Even If They Don’t Own The Underlying Debt
Last week, the Sixth Circuit in Hargrow v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, et al. (6th Cir. Case No. 11-1806) (PDF), held that banks are permitted to foreclose on homes in…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
But Wait . . . The SJC Has More To Say On Foreclosures
Just when we thought the Supreme Judicial Court's Eaton decision (see our post here) had resolved the last big question regarding foreclosure requirements, another case is providing new foreclosure fodder. Recently, the SJC requested…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
How Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Can Help
By Bryan Fears
Chapter 13 is known by several different names: reorganization plan, wage earner's plan, and repayment plan. Whatever the name, filing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy indicates an intention to repay creditors…
PropertyProf Blog
Using Partial Sales to Avoid Foreclosure
By propertyprof
The New York Times shows that in recent months a significant percentage of new real estate deals in Manhattan have involved groups taking partial stakes in buildings instead of buying…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
SJC Requires Foreclosing Bank to Hold Both Mortgage and Note
Last Friday the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued its anxiously-anticipated decision (pdf) in Eaton v. Fannie Mae. The decision is written by Justice Margot Botsford. As foreshadowed in our previous posts here and here, Eaton…