February 20, 2015
Friday’s Government Report Roundup
CRS Report, ‘Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI): Programs and Policy Issues’, by Sean Lowry. (Need Bloomberg BNA Subscription) Consumers’ mortgage shopping experience, by CFPB. HUD Subsidized More Than 106,000 Noncompliant Households. (Discussing HUD’s large-scale failure in oversight of requirement that … Continue reading
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February 19, 2015
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Round-up
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco – Community Investments: California’s Solution to Veteran Homelessness May Lie in Supportive Housing National Association of Realtors Supports Federal Housing Authority’s Plan to Reduce Mortgage Insurance Premiums
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February 18, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Mansion Tax: The Effect of Transfer Taxes on the Residential Real Estate Market, by Wojciech Kopczuk, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10375. The National Rise in Residential Segregation, by Trevon Logan & John Parman, NBER Working Paper No. w20934. (Paid access). … Continue reading
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February 16, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued and settled with Flagship Financial Group for $225,000 for advertising their mortgages as government approved. Citigroup, UBS and Goldman Sachs settle for $235 million over Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities that Residential Capital, LLC issued without … Continue reading
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February 11, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Banking Integration and House Price Comovement, by Augustin Landier, David Alexandre Sraer & David Thesmar, CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10295. Second-Liens and the Leverage Option, by Adam J. Levitin & Susan M. Wachter, U of Penn. Inst. for Law & … Continue reading
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February 9, 2015
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
A New York bankruptcy judge denied several mortgage originators’ motions to dismiss for Residential Capital LLC’s claims that they sold billions of dollars in defective loans. A few weeks after settling with the SEC for $58 million for fraudulent ratings … Continue reading
February 4, 2015
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Regional House Price Segmentation and Convergence in the US: A New Approach by William Miles, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2015. Impacts of Planning Rules, Regulations, Uncertainty and Delay on Residential Property Development by … Continue reading
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