The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, by a 5-3 majority, that the city of Miami was authorized to bring lawsuits based on allegations that banks engaged in financial-crisis-era discriminatory lending. The city alleged that the...more
5/5/2017
/ Discriminatory Lending Practices ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Foreclosure ,
Miami ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
Predatory Lending ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Tax Revenues ,
Zone of Interests
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued an alert on appraiser identity theft. The alert details cases in three states where identity thieves illegally used...more
For the past several years, Nevada courts have been flooded with quiet title actions between mortgage lenders and buyers who acquired residential properties at homeowners association (HOA) super-lien foreclosures. Recently,...more
The Nevada Supreme Court recently interpreted a statute that governs the manner in which a foreclosing trustee can postpone a trustee’s sale. At issue was whether a trustee must record a new notice of sale upon orally...more