While recent changes to the Internal Revenue Service's rules relating to modifications held by real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs) allow more flexibility in restructuring commercial mortgage-backed securities, the overall...
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Stewart Advances Paperless Transactions with Albuquerque’s First eNotaries
""Stewart Title of Albuquerque"":http://www.stewart.com announced Tuesday the first eNotary-outfitted title operation in New Mexico. [IMAGE] Tons of paper and lengthy transaction closing times have long been synonymous with the real...
Read More »Property Valuation Fraud is Industry’s Highest-Risk Area: Report
...documents a considerable shift toward schemes involving short sales, REO inventories, and refinancing by borrowers whose equity has been impaired by falling real estate values. Overall, the Interthinx Mortgage Fraud...
Read More »Investors Looking for Real Estate Gems, as REITs Gain Appeal
...more highly correlated to equities in the short term, potentially acting as a hedge against declining real estate values and also indicating the direction of real estate value momentum. •...
Read More »Regulators Shut Down Seven More Banks
...weight of real estate loans. But unlike the others, the local paper said, American United was almost exclusively in commercial real estate, not residential development. The value of American United's...
Read More »New Commercial Lender Puts Down Stakes in Dallas
Despite the grim outlook for the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, Dallas is now home to a new CRE start-up that's got capital to boot. [IMAGE] Newport Capital Advisors LLC...
Read More »Commercial Real Estate Giant Capmark Files for Chapter 11
Faced with continuing deterioration in the commercial real estate market, ""Capmark Financial Group"":http://www.capmark.com/capmark/ proceeded to file for bankruptcy protection as it warned it might last month.[IMAGE] One of the nation's...
Read More »New Company Offers Investors Continued ROI on Distressed Mortgage Assets
...the real estate and financial services industry, says there are two critical aspects of R2L's solution. ""The first is to provide an investment option to investors of distressed assets, such...
Read More »Commercial Real Estate is Weakest Sector, but not Systemic Risk: Fed Beige Book
Commercial real estate is now the weakest economic sector in the country, as residential real estate is showing some positive aspects and other sectors are mixed, the ""Federal Reserve"":http://www.federalreserve.gov said...
Read More »SunTrust Hangs Q3 Loss on Soured Real Estate Loans
...in 2007. ""While the company remains focused on extending credit to qualified borrowers, residential real estate and real estate construction loans declined as a result of the company's efforts to...
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