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The registry is not entitled to be notified of a pending tax lien sale, the ruling states.

Current mortgage lending growth assessments are consistently pointing in one direction: jumbo loans, and to a lesser extent home equity credit lines. But these loans make sense only in certain areas.

GSE reports that 2013 loan acquisitions are off by less than 1% from 2012.

Players in the REO-to-rental space see a bright future in pooling the cash flows of many operators into conduit transactions, but some believe the market is getting ahead of itself.

The founder of $49 billion investment firm DoubleLine Capital LP is largely avoiding the subprime-mortgage bonds that jumped about 17% last year after home prices surged by the most since 2006.

Short sales were dropping ahead of tax forgiveness provision expiration.

Fannie Mae had brought claims against New York-based Lehman over mortgages the bank packaged and sold. The agreement resolves one of the “single largest remaining claims” against the Lehman parent.

Federally insured credit unions with assets of $50 million-plus and concentrations in real estate loans would have to maintain additional capital requirements under the National Credit Union Administration proposal.

Forecasts generally call for slower home price gains that could reduce volatility but also investment returns when it comes to securitization valuations. Some recently-hot markets like California are topping out.

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