The drop in home values caused by the mortgage crisis has resulted in one positive outcome: Prices have fallen so far that home affordability is back to pre-housing-boom levels, reports Moody’s Analytics. But a quarter of house…
Among the state systems governing foreclosure, Hawaii has a particularly fraud-riddled, draconian process. Elderly Suzanne Bonds was unbelievably exploited by that process in 2004, but Hawaii’s courts refused to help. Now, her …
As multiple lawsuits and SEC actions progress in relation to the nation’s mortgage mess, it’s becoming clear that the misbehaviors of the lawyers involved at all stages were not isolated incidents: The misconduct was systemic, …
Peer-to-peer lending site Prosper.com has stopped letting high-risk borrowers use its site because too many of them failed to repay their loans. The site’s problem, says columnist and one-time lender Alex Salkever, is that Pros…
No longer such a high-flyer, the David J. Stern law firm is now being investigated and sued in a class action. The impact on pending Florida foreclosures and what the firm’s underlying conduct means for the future of the state’…