On Tuesday at 2 pm, the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on commercial and administrative law will meet to discuss measures to stall foreclosures. Wall Street has been in turmoil and there is mayhem on Main Street. The scheduled speakers are Jack Kemp (secretary of HUD under President George H.W. Bush), Wade Henderson (Civil Rights leader), [...]

Desperate times need desperate measures. As the foreclosure crisis intensifies Democrat Congressman from Massachusetts, Stephen F. Lynch has organized a foreclosure prevention workshop on Saturday in Randolph. The venue is the Randolph High School cafeteria where licensed mortgage experts will give confidential advice for free to those living under the hanging sword of Damocles. Lynch [...]

Across USA about 750,000 houses went into foreclosures. There are gloomy predictions that the number will rise to more than a million in 2008. With so many houses up for foreclosure auctions and sales, the real estate market is tottering with prices plummeting. This is the natural process of demand and supply. Houses not directly [...]

Organized mortgage frauds located in Atlanta seem to be a plausible explanation for the rising numbers of Atlanta foreclosures. The Wall Street Journal has reported how a fraud caucus managed to pocket $6.8 million in mortgages from Bear Stearns. A certain New York couple approached the bank with the story that they earned more than [...]

Bush has given his signature on mortgage legislation, which aims to give financial relief to foreclosure victims. Hitherto if a mortgage debt was forgiven then it was considered to be income as it was taken to be a gain. But that will no longer be applicable – forgiven debts will not be taxed. Bush said [...]

Statistics is pouring in. Analysis varies Foreclosure numbers fell in November from what it was in October making many opine that the peak has been reached and the process of climbing down has begun. Has the market found something to stand on? According to predictions ‘about $500 billion in adjustable-rate-mortgages are due to reset at [...]

Since the last twelve months hundreds of house owners have been knocking on the doors of Stephani Rojas – a mortgage counselor. They are desperately seeking help as foreclosures close in on them. The majority comes when they are just about to be evicted. There is a sense of shame for having failed their families [...]

The case of Kwaku Atta Poku has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Maryland Court of Appeals has heard the case of Poku. The process of foreclosure took his house away because he trusted his licensed agent, paid his refinancing dues but the agent never paid it. Maryland is famous for fast track courts – but [...]