Topic
Foreclosures
864 published works
Land Use Prof Blog
Lind on Housing Code Compliance in the Mortgage Crisis
Kermit Lind, a long-time clinician at Cleveland Marshall School of Law, has posted Collateral Matters: Housing Code Compliance in the Mortgage Crisis. Cleveland has been ground zero for foreclosure crisis…
Financial Institutions Law Blog
Borrower’s “Show Me The Note” Argument Fails To Halt Foreclosure
By Alejandro Moreno and Shannon Petersen In Debrunner v. Deutsche Bank Nat. Trust Co. (Cal.App. 6 Dist., 2012) --- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, 2012 WL 883128, the California Court of Appeal affirmed…
Consumer Finance Monitor
Critic of MERS and Payday Lending Joins CFPB
Christopher L Peterson, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, has taken a leave of…
Crunched Credit
Own-to-Rent: New Approach to Overflow REO Gaining Attention
With little good news on the horizon for the U.S. residential housing market, public and private programs offering the sale of bulk residential REO is, in many circles, the topic…
PropertyProf Blog
Where Do Families Go After Foreclosure?
By propertyprof
The Metrotrends blog does some digging:This is a tough question. The answer is that a few families may be trickling into homeless shelters, but probably not immediately after foreclosure, and…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Bankruptcy Can Help Distressed Homeowners
By Bryan Fears
Reuters.com recently published a story predicting an increase in home foreclosures in 2012. Banks slowed their foreclosure processes in 2011 due to the "robo-signing" scandal, but this past February five…
Rocky Mountain Real Estate Law
Take Two for a Colorado Foreclosure Bill
With foreclosures on the rise, it is no wonder that Colorado’s unique public trustee approach to the bank/borrower relationship finds itself in the limelight. The CEO of RealtyTrac was quoted…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
More Mortgage Musings from Federal Court
By Donald Pinto
A couple of interesting foreclosure-related orders from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, as reported in this week's Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (subscription required). In Morse v. Residential Credit Solutions, Inc.,…
Mortgage Crisis & Financial Services Watch
HUD Inspector General’s Reports on Foreclosure Handling Process of Five Major US Banks
In conjunction with its publication of the $25 billion settlement agreement, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Inspector General released separate reports detailing its investigation of foreclosure-handling practices at…
Georgia Bankruptcy Blog
Foreclosures In Georgia and Metro Atlanta Jump Higher, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filings Also Rising
By Sunghee Sohn
The Atlanta Journal reports that Georgia's rate of foreclosures remains among the highest in the nation. Statewide, 12,356 properties had foreclosure filings -- including default notices, scheduled auctions and bank…