Print Features

New regulations have the propensity to transform the mortgage industry into a system where servicers deliver, regulators protect, and consumers trust again. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) mortgage servicing regulations aim to do just that—get delinquent borrowers into loan modification plans and establish effective communication channels between the servicer and borrower to ultimately protect them from foreclosure.

Select Print Feature, originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of DS News magazine.   Suicide. Accusations of prosecutorial overkill fanned by political aspirations. Scores of homeowners perhaps unfairly evicted. All elements, surely, of a nightmarish made-for-TV movie, right? Unfortunately, ...

Select Print Feature, originally appeared in the December 2012 issue of DS News Magazine.   For get prices. Forget mortgage rates. The main driver of housing demand—according to three separate and distinct market studies—is confidence, primarily assurance that the value ...

 Select Print Feature, originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of DS News magazine. As new regulations take shape, one thing’s for certain: A clear, methodical response is key to tapering regulatory risk and preventing servicers from seeing red.   ...

  Select Print Feature, originally appeared in the May, 2013 issue of DS News Magazine. Can servicers and their partners in the field work through the many obstacles that come with fast-tracking vacant foreclosures? Several jurisdictions are considering legislation or ...

  Select Print Feature, originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.   Barney Frank served as a U.S. Congressman, representing the fourth district of Massachusetts, from 1981 to 2012 and occupied the chairman’s seat of the House Financial Services ...

Special Print Feature, originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.   By Jerry Alt The days of winging it are long gone for our universe of distressed assets and loss recovery—the result of a chain reaction that inexorably ...

Special Print Feature, originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.   By John Alkire With the housing crisis winding down, servicers are warming up for what could be a whole new ballgame in mortgage servicing. I played a fair ...

Amid budget cuts and promises to eliminate waste, the government is bleeding billions to maintain and secure vacant, underutilized federally owned properties. Special Print Feature, originally appeared in the April 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.

Special Print Feature, originally appeared in the May 2013 issue of DS News Magazine.   By Georgie Palafox   Vacant foreclosures pose risks and challenges to investors, servicers, and their partners in the field and can have devastating effects on local communities. ...