- Bank of America, Wells Fargo & Citigroup cannot escape the City of Miami’s discriminatory lending suit, which caused a loss in city tax revenue.
- Texas federal judge sanctions the US Environmental Protection Agency for failure to turn over documents that would have killed a Clean Water Act suit brought against Thomas Lipar, a property developer, and four other Lipar companies.
- Mortgage borrowers of Citibank and JPMorgan Chase seek class certification in suit over property inspection fees.
- If appeal fails from Second Circuit judgment, Nomura Holdings & Royal Bank of Scotland Group will pay $33 million more than the $806 million damages for selling risky mortgage securities.
- A New York federal judge found that federal law did not cover many claims in class action against Citibank for “mishandling mortgage-backed securities in more than $17 billion worth of pooled loans.”
- Property owners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to determine their standing in suit against several banks, including Bank of New York Mellon, HSBC, US Bank, Deutsche Bank & Wells Fargo, after the Second Circuit denied their claims that those banks did not own their mortgages.
- A class action over highly leveraged mortgage-backed securities against Goldman Sachs is dismissed for lack of evidence.
- The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) claims the Fifth Circuit incorrectly interpreted an FDIC statute, by extending the statute of limitations period, when it reinstated $2.1 billion mortgage-backed securities suit, which conflicts with Supreme Court precedent in CTS Corp. v. Waldburger.
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Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- The FHFA releases it 2015-2017 Housing Goals for Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.
- The US Department of Agriculture released its 20th Annual Food Security Report. The reports shows that 1 in 7 people live in food insecure households, but there has been a slight decline over the past few years.
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- The Effect of Negative Equity on Mortgage Default: Evidence from HAMP PRA, Therese C. Scharlemann & Stephen H. Shore, Office of Financial Research Working Paper No. 15-06.
- Housing Tax Reform and Foreclosure Rates, Richard Dusansky & Firas Zebian, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2015.
- Price Jump Risk in the US Housing Market, Robert I. Webb, Jian Yang & Jin Zhang, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 2015 Forthcoming.
- Statutory Right of Redemption and the Selling Price of Foreclosed Houses, Bruce L. Gordon & Daniel T. Winkler, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2015.
- Revealing the Rapist Next Door: Property Impacts of the Sex Offender Registry, Susan Yeh, International Review of Law and Economics, Forthcoming; George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 15-06; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 15-24.
- An Investigation into Sentiment-Induced Institutional Trading Behavior and Asset Pricing in the REIT Market, Prashant Das, Julia Freybote & Gianluca Marcato, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2015.
- Leveraged Bubbles, Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick & Alan M. Taylor, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10781.
Happy Labor Day!
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson.
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- On the Cyclicity of Regional House Prices: New Evidence for U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Michael André Flor & Torben Klarl, CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5471.
- How Mortgage Finance Affects the Urban Landscape, Sewin Chan, Andrew Haughwout & Joseph S. Tracy, FRB of New York Working Paper No. FEDNSR713.
- House-Price Expectations, Alternative Mortgage Products, and Default, Jan K. Brueckner, Paul S. Calem & Leondard I. Nakamura, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. FEDPWP15-1.
- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Judicial Foreclosure Delay and a Preliminary Look at New Mortgage Servicing Rules, Lawrence R. Cordell & Lauren Lambie-Hanson, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. FEDPWP15-14.
- Sharing Property, Kellen Zale, University of Colorado Law Review (Forthcoming); U of Houston Law Center No. 2015-A-16.
- [Re]Integrating Community Space: The Legal and Social Meanings of Reclaiming Abandoned Space in New York’s Lower East Side, Andrea L. McArdle, 2 Savannah Law Review 247 (2015).
- Bankruptcy Weapons to Terminate a Zombie Mortgage, Andrea J. Boyack & Robert Berger, Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2015.
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- Thornburg Mortgage Inc. Ch. 11 trustee wins $45 million against RBC Capital Markets LLC for seizing and miscalculating the value of some mortgage-backed securities from Thornburg in 2007.
- Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. will not be liable for $38 million for its policyholders settling in third-party mechanic’s lien suit against Fidelity’s interest in a real estate development, as it does not comply with Arizona Supreme Court precedent.
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- According to the Family Outcomes Study conducted by HUD, Housing Choice Vouchers are critical in families maintaining housing. Children from homeless families that receive vouchers “are less likely to miss school, and they experience lower rates of hunger and domestic violence.”
- The Office of the Inspector General for HUD released report, “Overincome Families Residing in Public Housing”, which finds that 1.1 million families currently living in public housing units have incomes that exceed the threshold, showing extreme examples.
- The Census Bureau released an edition of “Facts for Features” comparing the New Orleans area prior to Hurricane Katrina and now, including number of housing units, business establishments, employment, etc.
