- The Impact of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct on Appraisal and Mortgage Outcomes, Lei Ding & Leonard I. Nakamura, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 15-28.
- Financial Literacy and Mortgage Credit: Evidence from the Recent Mortgage Market Crisis, Xudong An, Raphael W. Bostic & Vincent W. Yao.
- Distance, Asymmetric Information, and Mortgage Securitization, Matthew J. Botsch.
- How High-Income Neighborhoods Receive More Service from Municipal Government: Evidence from City Administrative Data, James J. Feigenbaum & Andrew B. Hall.
- Setting the Stage for Ferguson: Housing Discrimination and Segregation in St. Louis, Rigel Christine Oliveri, Missouri Law Review, Forthcoming.
- Interactions between Job Search and Housing Decisions: A Structural Estimation, Rendon Silvio & Nuria Quella, FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 15-27.
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Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- The Third Circuit upholds class certification in case against PNC Bank NA, in which individuals are alleging the bank participated in an illegal home equity lending scheme.
- Residential Credit Solutions Inc., a mortgage servicing company, will pay $1.6 million in restitution and fines, according to the CFPB, for many violations, but specifically for issues with loan modifications and treating consumers as if they had defaulted.
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
- HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research released paper, which describes its “Bridge to Family Self-Sufficiency” Program. The program is intended to determine if low-income families in public housing improve their overall stability, with the right support.
- HUD released public, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, which is intended to more efficiently further the purposes and policies of the Fair Housing Act.
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- The Marginal Effect of First-Time Homebuyer Status on Mortgage Default and Prepayment, Saty Patrabansh, FHFA Working Paper 15-2.
- Gender Bias and Credit Access, Steven Ongena & Alexander A. Popov, ECB Working Paper No. 1822.
- Explaining the Boom-Bust Cycle in the U.S. Housing Market: A Reverse-Engineering Approach, Paolo Gelain, Kevin J. Lansing & Gisle James Natvik, Norges Bank Working Paper 11, 2014.
- Monetary Policy, Hot Housing Markets and Leverage, Christoph Ungerer, FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-048.
- Fraudulent Income Overstatement on Mortgage Applications During the Credit Expansion of 2002 to 2005, Atif R. Mian & Amir Sufi, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 15-16.
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- New York federal courts says HSBC Bank USA NA will face suit from National Credit Union Administration for over $2 billion in mortgage backed securities that HSBC served as trustee for.
- In the US DOJ’s reply in Quicken Loans suit against the government, the DOJ claims it is a preempted False Claims Act challenge.
- The Second Circuit accepted force-placed insurance defense in suit against Balboa Insurance Co., after finding the insurer’s premium rates were state approved.
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- Valuing Control, Peter C. DiCola, 113 Michigan Law Review 663 (2015).
- A Framework for Understanding Property Regulation and Land Use Control from a Dynamic Perspective, Donald J. Kochan, 4 Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law 303 (2015).
- The Use of Listed Real Estate Securities in Asset Management, Alex Moss & Andrew Baum.
- Financial Literacy, Broker-Borrower Interaction, and Mortgage Default, James Neil Conklin.
- Mortgage Default, Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Leonardo Martinez & Juan M. Sanchez.
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
- Primary Capital Advisors LLC will face suit for selling bad loans to a Residential Capital LLC subsidiary, putting the parent company into bankruptcy, because the contract language was ambiguous.
- California federal court approved Diversified Lending Group’s $163 million settlement with the SEC in a Ponzi scheme suit over returns on rental properties.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. settles for $388 million to end investor class action for misrepresenting underwriting standards for $10 billion in mortgage-backed securities.
