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Foreclosures
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Land Use Prof Blog
Alexander on Lawmaking and the Debate between Place-Based and People-Based Community Development
Lisa Alexander (Wisconsin) has posted Cultural Collective Efficacy, Social Capital and Place-Based Lawmaking: Revisiting the People Versus Place Debate. In it she renews the debate between those who advocate improving geographic…
PropertyProf Blog
Chan, Gedal, Been & Haughwout on What Happens to Distressed Mortgage Borrowers and Their Homes?
By propertyprof
Sewin Chan (NYU - Public Service), Michael Gedal (NYU - Public Service), Vicki Been (NYU) and Andrew Haughwout (Federal Reserve Bank) have posted Pathways after Default: What Happens to Distressed…
PropertyProf Blog
Foreclosures Make People Sick
By propertyprof
The Wall Street Journal reports that the foreclosures are correlated with bad health outcomes:New research by Janet Currie of Princeton University and Erdal Tekin of Georgia State University shows a…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Fed Takes Action Against Goldman for Residential Mortgage Practices
The Federal Reserve Board announced a formal enforcement action against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence relating to deficient…
Financial Institutions Law Blog
The California Court Of Appeal Again Rejects A Claim For Wrongful Foreclosure At The Pleading Stage
The recent published decision of Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Cal.App.1 Dist., August 11, 2011) --- Cal.Rptr.3d ----. 2011 WL 3506177, adds several more arrows to a secured lender's…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
So…What Brings You Here?
I really enjoy checking out the keywords and search queries people submit that lead them to our blog. Sometimes they are simple - looking up the attorneys or the firm. …
Land Use Prof Blog
Nichols on Tenant Protections under the PTFA
Elan Stavros Nichols (Michigan State) has posted Unanswered Questions Under the PTFA: Exploring the Extent of Tenant Protections in Foreclosed Properties, forthcoming in the Journal of Affordable Housing, Vol. 20,…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Interesting Rule 11 Case Involving Lawyer’s Reliance on Computerized “Client’s” Representations
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
In re Taylor provides a fascinating look into a high-volume foreclosure firm’s relationship with its client, HSBC, and its implications for Rule 11 sanctions. 2011 WL 3692440 (3d Cir.…
The Right Coast
MERS morass is hanging up negotiations on foreclosure settlement – The Washington Post
State and federal officials negotiating a settlement with the nation s biggest banks over shoddy foreclosure practices are hung up on how they should deal with a Reston-based company that…
Colorado Homeowners Association Law
HOAs Forcing Banks to Pursue Foreclosures
Bloomberg.com has just reported on a story where some homeowners’ associations (“HOAs”) in Florida have taken action to force banks to proceed with foreclosing on seriously delinquent mortgages or risk…