Wall Street Not Too Worried By Massachusetts Foreclosure Ruling
While real estate investors, homeowners and analysts around the country are struggling to determine just what type of effect the Massachusetts high court ruling invalidating two foreclosures last week...
View ArticleCase Study: A Close-Up Look at the Massachusetts Foreclosure Ruling
Since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled last week that Wells Fargo and US Bancorp unjustly foreclosed on two properties the mortgages to which they did not actually hold verifiable title,...
View ArticleMassachusetts Legislature Introduces Myriad, Controversial Bills on...
While legislators in the Massachusetts House of Representatives were concerned about helping homeowners facing foreclosure before the recent ruling reversing two foreclosures, now they are ramping...
View ArticleThe Next Logical Step: Foreclosed-Home Buyers at Risk in Massachusetts...
In Massachusetts, the groundbreaking foreclosure reversal ruling of a few weeks ago is now following its logical path. In what “appears to be the next step in the conversation,” according to borrower...
View Article36,000 in Massachusetts Alone are Living Long-Term in Foreclosed Homes
According to mortgage data processor Lender Processing Services, Inc., About 36,000 Massachusetts property owners are living – and have been living – rent- and mortgage-free in their homes as they...
View ArticleMassachusetts AG Settles Discrimination Suit
Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general, recently announced that two real estate companies had settled in two anti-discrimination and lead paint lawsuits[1]. The company in question, Top...
View ArticleMERS Update: Oregon, Montana, Massachusetts Judges Allows MERS to Foreclose
A Massachusetts judge has ruled that although the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) may have passed a promissory note through a “line of owners” like a “hot potato,” the MERS title...
View ArticleMassachusetts Foreclosures Up
Massachusetts is a state known for homeowner advocacy, but that is not necessarily slowing the foreclosure process down in this area of the country. In fact, in June Massachusetts posted its highest...
View ArticleHUD, Justice Department Bring Pressure to Contrary Attorneys General
If you live in New York, Nevada, Massachusetts or Delaware, then you can rest assured that your attorney general is pretty steamed about the robo-signer crisis. So steamed, in fact, that they are doing...
View ArticleDown and Up: Massachusetts Home Sales Numbers Improve
For the first time in half a year, single-family home sales in Massachusetts posted some year-over-year gains. Last month, the state experienced a 7 percent leap in homes sales over the year prior...
View Article
