In pending foreclosure cases, Judge Arthur Schack of Brooklyn, N.Y., doesn’t always wait for an opposing lawyer to raise issues about the ownership of mortgages. He investigates the problem himself…
Housing legislation expected to be passed by the Senate next week and then signed by President George W. Bush is billed as an effort to rescue individuals struggling to pay…
The neighbors had been more or less tolerating 100 or so bronze fountains, mermaids and other figures, centered around a 12-foot Neptune, in Gerald and John Hubbs’ 50-foot-wide all-concrete front…
As interested buyers gathered outside a foreclosed home in Taunton, Mass., to bid on it yesterday afternoon, the standard-issue auction scheduled for 5 p.m. suddenly veered off-course.
When a California appeals court judge sought a $1 million mortgage and a $900,000 credit line to refinance his 8,200-square-foot home in January 2004, a loan officer for Countrywide Financial…
In the wake of the FDIC’s takeover Friday of IndyMac Bancorp Inc., the FBI is now investigating possible fraud by the lender concerning mortgage loans made to high-risk borrowers.
Countrywide Home Loans has agreed to pay $325,000 and investigate its records of payments from about 300 borrowers to settle a dispute with a bankruptcy trustee in Pittsburgh.
As mortgage foreclosure filings in June rose 53 percent from the previous year’s figure, and bank seizures of such homes rose 171 percent, experts say the U.S. is in its…
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