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Housing double dip could be coming: MacroMarkets « HousingWire
A double-dip in housing could arrive this year with national home prices only 1% away from a new "post-crash low," MacroMarkets said in its March 2011 Home Price Expectation Survey. MacroMarkets compiled the report by gathering the opinions of more than 100 economists, real estate experts and investment and market strategists.Reverse mortgages
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The Risks of the Mortgage Mess: The Banks' View - DailyFinance
Judge OKs Countrywide settlement but big investors opt out - Los Angeles Times
Major investors opting out of a $624-million class-action settlement with Countrywide Financial Corp. said they would have recouped less than 5% of their losses on the mortgage lender's stock had they accepted the agreement. "A settlement on behalf of my clients would have to be a material multiple of that amount," said Blair Nicholas of San Diego, a lawyer for the California Public Employees' Retirement System and 15 other institutional investors.Allstate Sues Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Over Securities - Bloomberg
NEWARK -- State Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner made a splash in December when he ordered six of the nation's biggest mortgage lenders into court to show why their foreclosure operations shouldn't be suspended over reports of widespread irregularities.
6 of the biggest mortgage lenders say N.J. high court overstepped its boundaries | NJ.com
In Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when Ed lost his job and missed a few payments, he didn’t lose his house. He went to see George Bailey, executive secretary of his mortgage lender, the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan, and they worked things out.
Connecticut Law Tribune: Forensic Accounting And Valuation Litigation: Finding Out Who Really Holds The Note
OCC - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Administrator of National Banks
04/27/2012 NR 2012-70, OCC Appoints Receiver for Palm Desert National Bank, Palm Desert, CAU.S. regulators subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., seeking information on the banks’ role in bundling mortgages for sale to investors, a person familiar with the matter said. The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenas asked the banks for details on how mortgages were selected and bundled into securities, said the person, who declined to be identified because the probe isn’t public. Reuters reported the SEC probe earlier today, saying the subpoenas were sent last week.

