Brad German News
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency will begin inviting bids from investors to buy packages of foreclosed properties to be offered as rentals.
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Fannie Mae’s plan to convert foreclosed homes into rentals through sales to investors hinges on offering concentrated packages of properties in areas such as Florida, Arizona and Southern California where a real estate recovery may happen soonest, according to prospective investors.
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The European Union’s planned tax on financial transactions should have a “broad base” covering equities, bonds, currencies and derivatives to ensure it can’t be evaded, the finance ministers of France and Germany said.
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Freddie Mac, the government- supported mortgage company, made it harder for some borrowers with second-lien home equity debt to refinance as it released guidelines for its version of the federal Home Affordable Refinance Program.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies operating under U.S. conservatorship, dropped Steven J. Baum PC from their list of law firms eligible to handle foreclosures.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. units were sued by two pension funds over claims they made misleading statements about the exposure of MF Global Holdings Ltd. securities to European sovereign debt.
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PNC Financial Services Group Inc. was on the brink of selling Jim Durden a foreclosed house in Weed, California, last month when the country’s biggest banks came under public fire for improperly seizing homes. Now, he lives in an EconoLodge .
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Government efforts to make lenders pay for soured mortgages may be keeping potential borrowers from record-low interest rates, slowing home sales and refinancing as banks tighten standards to avoid more demands for refunds.
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Ally Financial Inc. ’s GMAC Mortgage unit told Freddie Mac that foreclosures by the auto and home lender might have been faulty weeks before halting its own evictions, according to two people briefed on the matter.
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Fannie Mae , the largest provider of mortgage financing in the U.S., said it halted referrals to a Florida foreclosure-processing law firm that’s being investigated by the state attorney general.
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