Tag Archives: Foreclosure

Law firm audits cost servicers millions of dollars annually while the firms spend tens of thousands of dollars per audit in employee time. The irony is that the bulk of the information requested is the same, so why hasn’t the industry been able to come up with a universal solution? It turns out the answer is already here.

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 ...

On Wednesday, the state of Florida ended three programs designed to distribute federal housing aid funds, all under the banner of the Florida Hardest-Hit Fund (HHF). While that in itself would be noteworthy, the decision to end the programs is ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the January issue of DS News, out now. Recently, the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals expanded upon the Ohio Supreme Court’s Holden decision. In Holden, the court had determined that a ...

Editor's note: This story was originally featured in the January issue of DS News, out now. On June 6, 2017, the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, issued an opinion in the combined cases of Blackstone v. Sharma, Sept. 2015 ...

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.