February 24, 2011
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that The Obama administration is trying to push through a settlement with the major loan servicers that could force America’s largest banks to be on the hook for reductions in loan principal worth billions of dollars. News of the proposed settlement is noteworthy because it would be the first […]
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February 14, 2011
Early in 2011, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) approved a lower court ruling that called into question the validity of thousands of foreclosures throughout the Commonwealth. In US Bank vs. Ibanez, the SJC held that the lender did not have the legal authority to foreclose because they couldn’t actually prove that they owned the mortgage. Specifically, […]
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