Shocking Statistics from Foreclosure Review As widely reported recently, close to 1.2 million borrowers (about 30% of the more than 3.9 million households that faced foreclosure proceedings by the 11 leading financial institutions in 2009 and 2010), had to battle purported wrongful seizures of these properties. These battles were frequently waged despite the borrowers not… Continue Reading
As we noted in a previous blog post, we believe that big aggregators of residential mortgage loans are attempting to revise history when they claim that they believed all along that all risk of borrower misrepresentations fell on correspondents. We expand on this idea, and comment further on repurchase claims generally, in the article that… Continue Reading
The big banks are gearing up for an aggressive buyback season. We’ve recently learned that CitiGroup and Wells Fargo have set aside their largest reserves to date to cover new “repurchase” issues. Many expect insistent demands to rain down from Fannie and Freddie, as the mortgage giants face looming statute of limitations cut-offs for such claims.
Posted in Mortgage Repurchase, Too Big to Fail 
