Servicing

Responding to “steadily improving” demand the Brentwood, Tenn.-based lender is intensifying recruitment efforts in strategic markets.

A perceived lack of HARP eligibility can be changed, in some cases just by checking addresses.

The city of Los Angeles is seeking damages for reduced property tax revenue and the costs of maintaining foreclosed properties, the complaint says.

A lawsuit has been filed questioning the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s decision to block municipalities from using eminent domain to modify a distressed borrower’s mortgage and prevent foreclosures.

The City Council unanimously approved a plan to make market-value offers on toxic loans and reissue them to homeowners.

It will use CoreLogic data to empower research conducted by the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center.

Rising interest rates means lenders’ refinance business will dwindle, forcing them to compete for buyers by potentially loosening their lending standards.

Cities and federal agencies have new requirements for maintaining foreclosed assets, so property preservation and servicing executives now spend lots of time poring over local codes.

Compensation for the business will be at a significant amount above book value.

A continuing reduction in bank-owned foreclosure inventories alongside third-quarter existing home inventory increases suggests “inventory bottomed early in 2013.”