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Attorneys General Hope to Lure California Back into Foreclosure Settlement

When California attorney general Kamala Harris left the negotiations table with the big banks earlier this fall, many people believed that the national coalition of state attorneys general that had been struggling to reach a settlement with big banks over … Continue reading

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Refi’s in Big Bank Foreclosure Settlement: Not Worth It

It is now almost exactly a year since news headlines screamed of a scandal at the big banks involving faulty foreclosure paperwork and fraud. Stories of one lowly bank clerk sitting in a room signing hundreds of foreclosure documents added … Continue reading

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Foreclosure Fight Needs to Find Fast Answers

As federal regulators clamp down on foreclosure procedures at the big banks, and the government sets new lender requirements for risk retention in residential mortgages, the cry from the industry is that this will only hamper the housing recovery and … Continue reading

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Robo-Settlement Snags

Word was last week that federal banking regulators, not the state attorneys general, were going to announce some kind of “enforcement action” against 14 big banks/servicers in the so-called “robo-signing” foreclosure paperwork mess today or tomorrow. Now I’m told that … Continue reading

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