The Fair Housing Act: Fifty years later
The year was 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated a week earlier. His death plunged the nation into moral crisis, and cities went up in flames.
The year was 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated a week earlier. His death plunged the nation into moral crisis, and cities went up in flames.
Stepping up foreclosure prevention efforts in New Jersey, the Murphy Administration unveiled a new housing counseling initiative, which will work with and enhance New Jersey's existing court mediation program, and is aimed at helping up to 2,000 threatened homeowners, Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver announced Aug. 14 in a release. Foreclosure News
Growing numbers of small subprime auto lenders are closing or shutting down after loan losses and slim margins spur banks and private equity owners to cut off funding. Summit Financial Corp., a Plantation, Florida-based subprime car finance company, filed for bankruptcy late last month after lenders including Bank of America Corp. said it had misreported…
The national credit bureaus keep track of how much you owe, what your payments are, your maximum borrowing limits and when and how often you are late on your payments. In addition, they report any matters of public record that you may have, such as bankruptcies, short sales, foreclosures, judgments, etc. Foreclosure News
In a little-noticed development, the D.C.-based Alex Cooper Auctioneers company announced that the building at 1101-1104 8th St., S.E. near the Washington Navy Yard in which the gay bar Bachelors Mill has been located since 1988 was sold at a public auction on May 24 for $ 3,275,000. The announcement says the sale was part…
With the Tenth Circuit's decision the circuits remain split with the Ninth Circuit and now the Tenth Circuit holding that non-judicial foreclosures are not debt collection activity and the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Circuits holding that they are. Cir., Jan. 19, 2018), Wells Fargo retained foreclosure counsel who sent the consumer an initial communication which…
Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Fitch Takes Rating Actions on Paragon RMBS Series here LONDON, March 17 Fitch Ratings has upgraded 7 tranches, downgraded 5 tranches and 4 currency swap obligations and affirmed 61 tranches and 4 currency swap obligations of the Paragon RMBS series. A full list of rating actions is available at www.fitchratings.com…