WASHINGTON, Jul 26, 2011 (Source: MarketWatch) — Ocwen Financial Corporation OCN -0.61% , servicer of residential mortgages, has initiated a loan modification program designed to help distressed homeowners who owe more than their houses are worth and, at the same [...]
FORTUNE (Source: CNNMoney By Abigail Field) – Investors in mortgage-backed securities who got cleaned out during the housing bust aren’t going to take their losses lying down. The first act of investor revolt was organized by Kathy Patrick, a little-known [...]
FORTUNE (Source: CNNMoney By Abigail Field) – Investors in mortgage-backed securities who got cleaned out during the housing bust aren’t going to take their losses lying down. The first act of investor revolt was organized by Kathy Patrick, a little-known [...]
(Source: Diana Olick by CNBC) – It’s not like the housing market needs any more headwinds, so here’s the government potentially giving us another: The mortgage interest deduction is back in big play in the budget deal.
(Source: StatesMan Journal Ron Eachus) – Proposing to reduce some of the mortgage interest deduction tax breaks for homeowners is like telling the local diner to take apple pie off the menu. It just isn’t received well by a public [...]
NEW YORK (Source: By David Weidner, MarketWatch) — Are you an idiot? If so, you may qualify for a bank loan with a special rate.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (Source: Daily Journal) — A real estate agent from Norwalk is facing sentencing for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme.
(Source: Boston Herald By Jerry Kronenberg) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley slammed a private network used by lenders for loan trading as she launched a far-reaching probe into whether banks violated state property-recording laws during the housing boom — [...]
MARTINEZ (Source: Lamorinda Patch By Andra Lim) – An Orinda man formerly at the helm of a real estate investment company pleaded not guilty to felony charges of embezzlement, theft and forgery Monday morning.
(Source: Bloomberg Businessweek) – The commercial real estate market is showing increased signs of stability, led by burgeoning demand for apartments, according to a report issued Monday by Moody’s.
(Source: By ALAN J. HEAVENS The Philadelphia Inquirer) – Eight out of 10 real estate agents are independent contractors, not salaried or commissioned employees.
(Source: RTTNews) – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or FDIC announced Friday the shuttering of two banks in Florida, and one in Colorado, taking the count of U.S. bank closures in 2011 to 58, after the 157 bank closures in [...]
(Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek By PALLAVI GOGOI) – Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Monday that she will not sign on to any agreement between attorneys general and the big banks if it includes releasing them from future liability related [...]
(Source: Dealb%%kBy BEN PROTESS) – The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ignited fear on Wall Street. But many banks may eventually benefit from the regulator’s careful watch, according to a new report by Moody’s Investors Service.
(Source: Reuters By Swati Pandey and Shamik Paul) – Lenders will look to pass on Tuesday’s interest rate increase to customers sooner than later to maintain profitability, even though at the cost of lending growth, which is seen slowing down.
(Source: FOx Business By Charlie Gasparino) – While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, they privately have been telling top executives at [...]
(Source: Bloomberg By Richard Tomlinson and Fabio Benedetti-Valentin) – In a locked room on the 33rd floor of Societe Generale (GLE) SA’s 36-story headquarters in western Paris, members of the bank’s fraud control team peer at their computers, scrutinizing the [...]
LONDON (Source: The Wall Street Journal BY MARGOT PATRICK) — European banks are cutting jobs to save on costs, as weaker earnings in key business lines and coming regulations bite into their profits.
(Source: Bloomberg By Sarah Mulholland) – A cut in the U.S. government’s AAA grade could force investors to sell asset-backed securities tied to student loans, causing spreads to widen “significantly,” according to Citigroup Inc.
(Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek) – Rhode Island will offer nursing students zero interest student loans if they agree to work in the state after graduation.
PHILADELPHIA, July 21, 2011 (SOURCE Berger & Montague, P.C.) – The law firms of Berger & Montague, P.C. and Ann Miller, LLC have filed a Class Action complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania [...]
(Source: kuow) – The state’s new Foreclosure Fairness Act takes effect today (Friday). It requires that distressed homeowners be given the chance to seek mediation before banks can foreclose. Housing counselors say their phones are ringing off the hook as [...]
(Source: GLobes Israel’s Business Arena Nathan Wirtschafter) – Many Israelis are now buying and selling American real estate, trying to take advantage of a strong shekel and a weak United States real estate market.
CAPE CORAL, Fla. (Source: NewAmericaMedia) — After the Second World War, returning veterans were welcomed home to two of the most successful government initiatives ever — the FHA and VA housing programs — which put millions of them into their [...]
(Source: Daily Herald) – Mortgage industry employees are still signing documents they haven’t read and using fake signatures more than eight months after big banks and mortgage companies promised to stop the illegal practices that led to a nationwide halt [...]
(Source: The Sun News By Josh McCann) – New Jersey authorities have released 33 pages of information about the mortgage-fraud scheme involving Blair Witkowski of Bluffton after a New Jersey man admitted last week to participating in it.
(Source: By E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times) – Bank of America Corp.’s chief executive is out to convince Wall Street that he’s finally bringing under control the financial disaster caused by the bank’s acquisition of mortgage goliath Countrywide Financial [...]
July 25 (Source: San Francisco Chronicle) – Sales of mortgage bonds are poised to rise for the first time in five years as the securities help fill a void created by utilities that pulled debt sales following the world’s worst [...]
(Source: By Gayle Beck CantonRep) – Unlike some personal financial problems, foreclosure — especially on the scale we’ve seen in Stark County since the housing bubble collapsed — affects whole communities. Today we’re wrapping up our question-and-answer series on foreclosure, [...]
(Source: CBS News By Christopher Caldwell) – President Obama’s nomination of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may finish off the brief political career of the most eccentric and poorly understood figure [...]
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