Foreclosure

The GSEs (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) completed 22,411 foreclosure prevention actions in November, bringing the total to 4,013,134 since the start of the conservatorships in September 2008, according to the Foreclosure Prevention Report released by the Federal Housing Finance ...

As the island continues its long recovery from the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is on the cusp of a dire foreclosure epidemic. According to a December 2017 report by The New York Times, around one third of ...

Mortgage delinquencies hit a 23-month high as 2017 wrapped up, surging by 164,000 year-over-year, according to the latest Mortgage Monitor Report from the Data and Analytics Division of Black Knight, Inc. However, that figure only tells part of the story. ...

Title insurance and title-related products are an integral, and often expensive, part of the mortgage default process. Every aspect of default servicing touches title, from loss mitigation to REO disposition. Although many servicers have designed their internal functions, groups, and ...

A recent opinion in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified a sticking point regarding a mortgagee’s right to foreclose, in spite of some unclear wording in the original mortgage paperwork. The case was brought against James B. Nutter Company by ...

The economic concerns following the destruction of Hurricane Maria stretch further than the islands. As some states are faced with an influx of refugees putting a strain on their housing market, the federal agencies step in to address the issues at hand.

The state of mortgage delinquencies was a mixture of good news and bad news as 2017 wrapped up, according to a new report by Black Knight, Inc., a provider of integrated technology, data, and analytics for lenders and servicers. Today ...

Collectively, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sealed 18,034 foreclosure prevention actions back in October, bringing the combined total to 3,990,723 since the GSE conservatorships launched in September 2008, so says the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) October 2017 Foreclosure Prevention Report. By ...

A new bill proposed in the Arizona Senate this week could speed up the timeline for when homeowners associations (HOA) could foreclose on homeowners who become delinquent in their HOA payments. Senate Bill 1080, proposed by Sen. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain ...

A report on the state of foreclosures in New York City and Q42017 reflected ongoing trends towards rising foreclosures in the city.