Chase Chased & Caught – Slapdown!
July 20, 2013
Congrats to Terry Scannell, the attorney who convinced a Washington County jury last Thursday, July 18, 2013, to rule in favor of his clients, Bela
Congrats to Terry Scannell, the attorney who convinced a Washington County jury last Thursday, July 18, 2013, to rule in favor of his clients, Bela
In a recent article in Mortgage Servicing News here, we learn that apparently 49 state attorneys general were unable to draft the terms of the
Closed sales: Decreased by 6.4% (2,511) from 2,682 in May. But year-to-date, they increased 11.9% over June 2012 with 2,244 closed sales. [Comment: There could
It is no secret that my regard for the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (“the CFPB”) is akin to my regard for Bubonic Plague; they both
For the last several years, the Federal Reserve has pursued an unorthodox (read “last resort”) fiscal policy known as “Quantitative Easing.”[1] Fed Chair Ben Bernanke
Background. As mentioned in an earlier post here, the Niday case, which I have previously commented on here and here as it was winding
“The average sales price so far this year is $299,900, up 14.9% from the same period in 2012, when the average was $261,100. In the
How low can housing inventory go? According to Oregon’s Regional Multiple Listing Service (“RMLS®”), May’s inventory dropped to 2.5 months. To clarify, according to RMLS®, “inventory
In a further example of “mission creep”, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”), another spawn of Dodd-Frank, charged with responsibility to oversee and regulate…everything with
In a important decision on the future role of MERS in Oregon’s non-judicial foreclosure process, the Oregon Supreme Court answered four certified questions that had