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2011 

Great news.....The industry’s shadows are shrinking, according to CoreLogic's most recent report. Data Highlights: The shadow inventory of residential properties as of July 2011 fell to 1.6 million units, or 5–months’ worth of supply, down from 1.9 million units, or a 6-months’ supply, as compare...
09/29/2011
The delinquency rate on loans held in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) fell 23 basis points in August to 9.01 percent, according to Moody's Investors Service. Even with a slip in the numbers, Moody's notes that August was the eighth consecutive month that delinquencies have been...
09/29/2011
Financial institutions filed 29,558 mortgage loan fraud suspicious activity reports in the second quarter of this year, up from 15,727 last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. A large majority of the MLF(Mortgage Loan Fraud) SARs(Suspicious ...
09/29/2011
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is calling for independent reviews of almost 4.5 million loans. After examining 200 loans from each of 14 major servicers, regulators determined enforcement actions were necessary, but said their review was not nearly enough to answer all questi...
09/20/2011
Banks held about 476,000 homes that they repossessed from delinquent mortgage borrowers as of the end of July, according to Barclays Capital. That tally represents a 17 percent contraction from 574,000 REOs on the books just 10 months earlier, in September of 2010, just as the robo-signing scanda...
09/20/2011
Freddie Mac sent a letter to investors regarding bulk sales of foreclosed homes. According to the letter to investors obtained by American Banker, Freddie Mac does not intend to offer discounts on bulk purchases on any of their 60,569 REO properties. The GSE offers investors the opportunity to pu...
09/19/2011
Tuesday, U.S. regulators are set to unveil a final rule that requires banks and some other large financial companies to write "living wills" that provide a road map for how they could be quickly liquidated if they run into trouble. The rule applies to banks with more than $50 billion in assets --...
09/11/2011
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditionsby Federal Reserve DistrictSeptember 7, 2011  Real Estate and ConstructionResidential real estate activity remained weak overall, although a few Districts noted some slight improvements. Contacts in the Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Dallas ...
09/07/2011
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced the launch of a new program to encourage small investors and asset managers to partner with larger investors to participate in the FDIC's structured transaction sales for loans and other assets from failed banks. The Investor Match Progra...
09/07/2011
Real estate professionals and other observers in Southwest Florida, believe there has been a clear stabilization in pricing for 2011. Teaming up with Zillow.com, the real estate analysis site, Forbes calculated median sales prices by quarter for homes, condominiums and apartments at all price poi...
09/01/2011
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