EDMONTON(Source: The Star) —Charges have been laid against two people from Alberta and a third person from British Columbia in connection with an alleged $6.7-million mortgage fraud. The three face a total of 41 fraud charges involving 97 properties and [...]
NEW YORK (Source: TheStreet) – “Tax filing” is a hot Internet search as the April 18 deadline for taxpayers to file their tax returns approaches.
(Source: The Florida Times-Union By Roger Bull) – Perry Laspina was in the middle of foreclosure with the possibility of losing the house he owned in Jacksonville. Then the mail came one day in late January telling him that the [...]
(Source: The Brunswick News By Lindsey Adkison) – The dark cloud of the housing crisis is still firmly hovering over Brunswick and the Golden Isles.
(Source: The Charlotte Observer By Rick Rothacker) – Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said his investigation of mortgage servicers won’t be affected by separate agreements that lenders are reaching with banking regulators, but he would have preferred the agencies kept [...]
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram By Dave Montgomery) – Legislation by Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth that would cap fees and interest on loans made by payday and car title lenders was approved Thursday by the Senate Business and Commerce [...]
(Source: The Capital, Annapolis, Md. By Heather Rawlyk) – Robert Bennett is one step closer to keeping the Annapolis home he purchased with his late wife, Ophelia, three decades ago.
CONCORD -(Source: Contra Costa Times By Rick Hurd) – A Concord homeowner pushed back at some vandalists on Friday night and wound up hospitalized for his trouble, police said.
(Source: The Press-Enterprise By Leslie Berkman) – A knock on the door of his Moreno Valley home in late February brought shock, then relief, to Robert Pacheco, a 41-year-old construction worker who had fallen behind on his mortgage payments after [...]
(Source: North County Times By Eric Wolff,) – Short sales have been gumming up the housing market for years, turning routine transactions into half-year sagas of delays and frustration for both buyers and sellers.
(Source: Idaho Business Review, The By Goins, Dave ) – With the wreckage from America’s subprime mortgage loan crisis still floating in, the Idaho Attorney General’s office has proposed a bill an official with the agency says would aid Idaho [...]
(Source: Boston Herald By Gerald Nissenbaum ) – Q Years ago, when I got divorced, I signed a separation agreement requiring me to now pay a lump sum of $300,000 to my husband, with interest. That promise is secured by [...]
(Source: The Knoxville News-Sentinel By The Knoxville News-Sentinel) – A bill in the state Legislature that’s backed by the Tennessee Bankers’ Association would remove just about all of the few protections for struggling home buyers in Tennessee.
GRAND TERRACE -(Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ) – The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a court motion seeking to remove the CEO of American Pacific Financial Corp., a financial services firm, from control of that company.
April 10– (Source: The Sun News By David Wren) – Myrtle Beach lawyer Harry Pavilack has contacted local police and the FBI about an alleged hit man that he thinks has been sent here to kill him over a real [...]
(Source: FDL By: David Dayen) – It’s confirmed: the OCC and some other federal regulators will pursue their own foreclosure settlement with the banks, based on the ridiculous consent decree that allows banks to get away with fraud and other [...]
(Source: ABC-7) – Lee County’s “Rocket Docket” program is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. The group accuses the system of putting speed first, and accuracy second.
RICHMOND, VA (source: WTVR By Shelby Brown) – A Central Virginia housing agency is turning to the Attorney General’s office and the Federal Trade Commission for help in prosecuting some companies it says is preying on homeowners.
(Source: CNBC By: Diana Olick) – I was hoping not to have to write this particular piece, but it seems I may have no choice, so here we go with housing.
(Source: International Business Times) – One in nine home owners are more than 90 days behind on their mortgage payments, which has prompted loan modification scams that promise to rescue home owners from foreclosure doom to skyrocket.
(Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch By Carol Hazard) – Have we got a deal for you! “We can stop your foreclosure.” “We can guarantee you will qualify for a loan modification.” “We have a 98 percent success rate.”
(Source: Irish Times By Conor Pope) – MORTGAGE RATE RISE: ANALYSIS : Trichet confirmed the mortgage wheel has turned and rates are on the increase again.
(Source: San Bernardino County Sun By Rebecca U. Cho) – A shadow inventory of homes, or distressed properties not yet on the market for sale, can upend the Inland Empire’s still fragile housing market, market observers said.
(Source: Contra Costa Times By Eve Mitchell) – In a housing market in which prices continue to be battered by foreclosures and short sales, many would-be buyers of condominiums in the Bay Area instead have found bargain-priced single-family houses as [...]
(Source: Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) – Large numbers of Saudis and expatriates turned up to visit the Access MBA Tour orientation program held on Thursday.
(Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram By Dave Montgomery) – Legislation by Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth that would cap fees and interest on loans made by payday and car title lenders was approved Thursday by the Senate Business and Commerce [...]
(Source: The Hartford Courant, Connecticut By Kenneth R. Gosselin) – Mortgage rates inched up for the third week in a row, after an encouraging jobs report last week signaled the economy may be on the mend.
(Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press By Gita Sitaramiah) – Home prices in the Twin Cities declined by 7.8 percent in February compared with the same month a year ago, real estate data firm CoreLogic showed Thursday.
COSTA MESA, Calif. (Source: PRNewswire) – Kassas Law, a California firm providing client-focused interdisciplinary services, announces the launch of its Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) service to homeowners. As failed loan modifications continue in the United States, Kassas is representing homeowners [...]
(Source: The Roanoke Times By Brian Kelley) – The federal safety net for the financial sector was cast too broadly and distorted the market’s perceptions of risk, encouraging the housing bubble and subsequent economic crisis as the economy went into [...]
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