December 11, 2013
Reiss on Watt Confirmation
Law360 interviewed me about the Senate confirmation of Mel Watt as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in Fannie, Freddie’s Footprint Could Grow Under New FHFA Head. The article reads in part, The U.S. mortgage industry is in … Continue reading
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December 10, 2013
Imposing Order on Recording Chaos
Dale Whitman has posted A Proposal for a National Mortgage Registry: MERS Done Right. This is great timing because he will be touching on some of the issues raised in this article in tomorrow’s webinar. His proposal for a national … Continue reading
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November 16, 2013
A Review of “Reckless Endangerment”
The 2008 Financial Crisis and subsequent fall of Lehman has been a recent point of fascination. HBO released its acclaimed “Too Big to Fail”; Kevin Spacey starred in “Margin Call”; even Michael Douglas’ “Wall Street” saw a revamp with a … Continue reading
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November 13, 2013
Brooklyn’s New Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship
Brooklyn Law School has announced a new venture, the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE), that will encompass much of the work that Brad Borden and I do, including this very blog. The press release reads: Brooklyn has become a … Continue reading
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September 9, 2013
Myths About Home Buying
I was quoted by MainStreet.com in Top 5 Myths About Home Buying Today. It reads in part, The fact is, buying a home today is absolutely, totally different from buying one in 2003. And right there is why so … Continue reading
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August 20, 2013
Judge Rakoff Is All FIRREA-ed Up
Law360 quoted me in a story, Rakoff Gives DOJ License To Be Bold In Bank Crackdown (behind a paywall), that reads in part, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s expansive Monday opinion backing the federal government’s $1 billion mortgage fraud … Continue reading
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August 15, 2013
Laches Upends Priority of Mortgagee in Utah
Professor Wilson Freyermuth posted this summary of the Utah Supreme Court’s opinion, Insight Assets, Inc. v. Farias, ___ P.3d ___, 2013 WL 3990783 (August 6, 2013), to the DIRT listserv: Synposis: Although vendor purchase money mortgagee may generally have a … Continue reading
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