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Foreclosures
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PropertyProf Blog
Illinois court halts 1,700 Cook County foreclosures
By propertyprof
Well, this is a new one. We've seen robo-signing, we've seen lost documents and notes, we've even seen foreclosures on the wrong houses. But to my knowledge, this is the first time we've…
New Jersey Law Blog
Common Interest Community Association Lien Foreclosures and the Eviction Process
In these tough economic times, the delinquent monthly payments of homeowners' special assessment fees, HOA fees, maintenance fees, and/or condo fees have become more and more of an impediment to…
Land Use Prof Blog
Lind on Public Nuisance Law and Bank Foreclosures
This blog has had the good fortune to feature the amazing work of Cleveland-Marshall's Urban Development Law Clinic (here and here, too) as well as dispatches from the front lines of the…
Land Use Prof Blog
“27 amazing statistics about the real estate market”
April Charney, Senior Attorney in Jacksonville Legal Aid's Consumer Unit and foreclosure attorney extraordinaire, has posted an article containing 27 statistics about the real estate crash on "DIRT - Real…
Land Use Prof Blog
Brescia on State Enforcement Actions and the Robo-Sign Scandal
Raymond H. Brescia (Albany) has posted Leverage: State Enforcement Actions in the Wake of the Robo-Sign Scandal. The abstract:In the fall of 2010, in one of the largest scandals to…
PropertyProf Blog
The Mounting Costs of Foreclosures
By propertyprof
The Home Defenders League, a community activist organization in California, released a report this week with the provocative title of “Home Wreckers: How Wall Street Foreclosures are Devastating Communities.” You…
PropertyProf Blog
Hundreds of Foreclosures Halted in Oregon
By propertyprof
Perhaps -- perhaps -- the tide is finally turning in the foreclosure crisis: courts are actively preventing unlawful foreclosures (Florida excepted). I think that's a very, very good thing, because…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
Land Court Affirms Validity of MERS Foreclosure
By Donald Pinto
One of many issues swirling in the miasma of the foreclosure crisis has been whether Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. – MERS for short – can validly foreclose a mortgage that it holds as nominee…
Land Use Prof Blog
The Great American (Rental) Dream…
The idea that a mortgaged house represents the pinnacle of the American dream is flawed on many levels. Not the least of which is that there is a certain economic…
New Jersey Law Blog
Possible State Attorneys General Plan to Make it Harder for Banks to Foreclose to Further Damage Common Interest Community Associations
Five of the country's largest banks recently received a list of demands from state attorneys general with respect to their foreclosures due to mortgage default. If the banks give in…