Top Rhode Island court upholds abortion-rights law; other legal fights expected if Roe is overturned
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Supreme Court allows eased voting requirements in Rhode Island and notes state support
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Long Island Cheat Sheet: Median home prices rise year-over-year,…
Clockwise from top left: Mattress Firm seeks tax breaks from Nassau County, Long Island's median home price increases over October 2017, Starwood Capital Group sells Uniondale Marriott, and a German grocery chain acquires 24 Best Market stores on Long Island. Long Island's median home price increases over October 2017 The median home price on Long […]
Rhode Island Adopts Home Loan Protection Act and Mortgage Foreclosure Disclosure Provisions
The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulations is reformatting all of its current banking regulations in order to incorporate them into the Rhode Island Code of Regulations and has adopted the Home Loan Protection Act and Mortgage Foreclosure Disclosure provisions. The RICR is a uniform code of all regulations filed by Rhode Island's state agencies, […]
A “for sale” sign lies on an empty lot in Staten Island.
Nearly 10 years since the official start of the Great Recession, city foreclosure cases have declined to pre-crisis levels, and home prices have soared. But incomes have not risen proportionately, leaving many New York families shut out of homeownership. Foreclosure News
Dina Lohan files for bankruptcy to save Long Island house and deal with over $1 million in debts
The house has been in foreclosure and was schedule to go on the auction block. The bankruptcy filing effectively halts the sale. Foreclosure News
FHA Updates Policy for Hurricane Relief to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Island Homeowners
On August, 16, 2018, FHA announced it is updating its foreclosure prevention option for borrowers in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands impacted by hurricanes Irma and Maria. This will give borrowers with delinquent FHA-insured mortgages easier access to bring their mortgages current without an increase in their interest rates or monthly payments. Foreclosure […]
District of Rhode Island requires compliance with face-to-face…
The United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island continues to render decisions concerning the face-to-face meeting requirement. In two recent decisions, the Court found that holding a face-to-face meeting with the mortgagor concerning an FHA-insured mortgage loan is a condition precedent to acceleration/foreclosure. Foreclosure News
3 top lawyers in Rhode Island agencies didn’t have current state licenses
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An abandoned house on Sand Fiddler Road as seen on Feb. 28 in Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island.
The eyesore was right next door, and she could see it all: the tarp covering the roof, the unpainted plywood boards holding the front steps together and the unkempt swimming pool – a perfect breeding ground of mosquitoes. Yellow notices from utility companies, warning the owner of impending disconnections, littered the front porch. Foreclosure News