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Testing Fannie Mae's And Freddie Mac's Post-Crisis Self-Preservation Policies Under The Fair Housing Act, Shelby D. Green
Testing Fannie Mae's And Freddie Mac's Post-Crisis Self-Preservation Policies Under The Fair Housing Act, Shelby D. Green
Cleveland State Law Review
Beginning in the 1930s, the federal government adopted programs and policies toward safe and decent housing for all. The initiatives included the creation of the Federal Housing Administration that, among other things, spurred mortgage lending by guaranteeing mortgage loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers. The creation of the secondary mortgage market by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs) helped provide more liquidity for loan originators. However, somewhere along the way, these GSEs lost their way, as they pursued profitability without regard to risk and heedlessly bought mortgages without considering quality.
The overabundance of poor quality mortgages led to the housing …
Foiled By The Banks? How A Lender's Decision May Support Or Undermine A Jurisdiction's Environmental Policies That Promote Green Buildings, Darren A. Prum
Foiled By The Banks? How A Lender's Decision May Support Or Undermine A Jurisdiction's Environmental Policies That Promote Green Buildings, Darren A. Prum
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
A United Nations Environmental Programme report addressing climate change states that the built environment in both emerging and developed countries accounts for more than forty percent of global energy usage and at least one third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The report further asserts that the built environment offers an unsurpassed opportunity to supply cost effective, lasting, and meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In response to this call to action, state and local governments in the U.S. have turned to a variety of policies to ensure that real estate developments within their jurisdictions further green building objectives. However, …
Lending Discrimination, The Foreclosure Crisis And The Perpetuation Of Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Homeownership In The U.S., Aleatra P. Williams
Lending Discrimination, The Foreclosure Crisis And The Perpetuation Of Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Homeownership In The U.S., Aleatra P. Williams
William & Mary Business Law Review
For decades the agencies charged with minding the ‘fair credit and lending’ shop turned a blind eye to those (lenders) who pilfered minority homeownership (and consequently minority wealth) by extending mortgage lending products that were, in many cases, unequal to similarly situated non-minority counterparts. Since the 1950s, when the federal government endorsed homeownership policies for minorities, and the 1960s, when antidiscriminatory D9lending laws were enacted, access to fair mortgage credit has been unattainable. Unbridled lending discrimination culminated in massive foreclosures for a disproportionate number of minority homeowners during the Housing and Foreclosure Crisis. Lenders disparately foreclosed upon upper class, middle …
The Emperor’S New Clothes: How The Judicial System And The Housing-Mortgage Market Have Turned A Blind Eye To The Destruction Of The Negotiability Of Mortgage Promissory Notes, Roy D. Oppenheim, Jacquelyn K. Trask-Rahn
The Emperor’S New Clothes: How The Judicial System And The Housing-Mortgage Market Have Turned A Blind Eye To The Destruction Of The Negotiability Of Mortgage Promissory Notes, Roy D. Oppenheim, Jacquelyn K. Trask-Rahn
William & Mary Business Law Review
This Article examines the common notions of negotiable instruments as they relate to the modern day promissory note in the context of residential mortgage lending. The Article further addresses the destruction of the negotiability of such promissory notes through various undertakings added for the benefit of the banking industry, often to the detriment of a borrower. The use of negotiable instruments commenced in the 1800s in England as a way of ensuring a fluid market between trades as there was no fiat currency system in place. The fundamental purpose behind the concept of negotiability was subsequently abrogated by the modernization …
Treading Water: Can Municipal Efforts To Condemn Underwater Mortgages Prevail?, Michael S. Moskowitz
Treading Water: Can Municipal Efforts To Condemn Underwater Mortgages Prevail?, Michael S. Moskowitz
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Property And Mortgage Fraud Under The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act: What Is Stolen And When Is It Returned?, Arthur Durst
Property And Mortgage Fraud Under The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act: What Is Stolen And When Is It Returned?, Arthur Durst
William & Mary Business Law Review
The United States Circuit Courts of Appeals are split on how to calculate restitution in a criminal loan fraud situation where collateral is involved. This trend is best illustrated in cases involving mortgage fraud. The split stems from disagreement over how to account for the lender’s receipt of collateral property. The Third, Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals consider the property returned when the person defrauded receives cash from the sale of collateral property. The Second, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits deem the property returned when the lender takes ownership of the collateral property. This Note argues that the …
The Constitutionality Of Using Eminent Domain To Condemn Underwater Mortgage Loans, Katharine Roller
The Constitutionality Of Using Eminent Domain To Condemn Underwater Mortgage Loans, Katharine Roller
Michigan Law Review
One of the most visible and devastating components of the financial crisis that began in 2007 and 2008 has been a nationwide foreclosure crisis. In the wake of ultimately ineffective attempts at federal policy intervention to address the foreclosure crisis, a private firm has proposed that counties and municipalities use their power of eminent domain to seize “underwater” mortgage loans—-mortgage loans in which the debt exceeds the value of the underlying property—-from the private securitization trusts that currently hold them. Having condemned the mortgage loans, the counties and municipalities would reduce the debt to a level below the value of …
Half-Way Mark Reached In The Demise Of The Inequitable Application Of The “Due-On-Sale” Clause, Bernard J. Koerselman
Half-Way Mark Reached In The Demise Of The Inequitable Application Of The “Due-On-Sale” Clause, Bernard J. Koerselman
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Value(S) Of Foreclosure Law Reform, Melissa B. Jacoby
The Value(S) Of Foreclosure Law Reform, Melissa B. Jacoby
Pepperdine Law Review
This symposium contribution examines the starkly different values reflected in traditional legal literature on foreclosure law reform in the U.S. as compared to some more recent entries in the wake of the rise of subprime lending and high rates of residential mortgage default. I highlight economist Dean Baker’s “right to rent” proposal, which would give former homeowners leasehold rights at market rates, to illustrate a more progressive set of housing policy considerations and to challenge the assumption that ownership is essential or optimal to promoting various housing objectives.
Bringing Manufactured Housing Into The Real Estate Finance System, Ann M. Burkhart
Bringing Manufactured Housing Into The Real Estate Finance System, Ann M. Burkhart
Pepperdine Law Review
Eight percent of the United States population - more than 23 million people - live in manufactured homes (also called mobile homes). In some years, more than 30% of the new homes sold have been manufactured. Moreover, manufactured housing is the most important form of unsubsidized affordable housing in this country. Up to two-thirds of the new affordable homes built each year have been manufactured. However, the manufactured housing industry currently is struggling to survive a meltdown in its sales and finance markets. A tremendous obstacle to the industry’s recovery is that most manufactured homes are characterized as personal property, …
Mezzanine Finance And Preferred Equity Investment In Commercial Real Estate: Security, Collateral & Control, Jon S. Robins, David E. Wallace, Mark Franke
Mezzanine Finance And Preferred Equity Investment In Commercial Real Estate: Security, Collateral & Control, Jon S. Robins, David E. Wallace, Mark Franke
Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review
This article will review both the genesis and the rise in popularity of preferred equity and mezzanine debt, examine their legal and structural differences, and provide some exposition as to how these financing techniques work from security, collateral and control standpoints. We do not undertake in this article to address the differences in tax and accounting treatment between mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments both for either the mezzanine lender or preferred equity investor on the one hand, or for the mezzanine borrower or the common equity investor, on the other hand. In deciding upon which structure to use, transaction …
Fair Lending 2.0: A Borrower-Based Solution To Discrimination In Mortgage Lending, Jared Ruiz Bybee
Fair Lending 2.0: A Borrower-Based Solution To Discrimination In Mortgage Lending, Jared Ruiz Bybee
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Fair lending laws promise that borrowers with similar credit profiles will receive similar loan products-regardless of their race. Yet, studies reveal that black and Latino borrowers consistently receive loan products that are inferior to those of white borrowers with similar credit characteristics. Despite frequent amendments since their passage during the Civil Rights Era, the Fair Lending Laws that opened doors for minority borrowers are unable to root out the subtle discrimination that persists in today's mortgage lending market. These traditional Fair Lending Laws are built on an outdated framework that focuses exclusively on punishing lenders and righting past wrongs. This …
The Jumbled Alphabet Soup Of The Collapsed Home Mortgage Market: Abcp, Cdo, Cds And Rmbs, Georgette Chapman Phillips
The Jumbled Alphabet Soup Of The Collapsed Home Mortgage Market: Abcp, Cdo, Cds And Rmbs, Georgette Chapman Phillips
University of Miami Business Law Review
No abstract provided.
Things Happen, Richard A. Booth
Smoke And Mirrors: Predatory Lending And The Subprime Mortgage Loan Securitization Pyramid Scheme, Navid Vazire
Smoke And Mirrors: Predatory Lending And The Subprime Mortgage Loan Securitization Pyramid Scheme, Navid Vazire
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mortgage Market Reform And The Fallacy Of Self-Correcting Markets, Robin Paul Malloy
Mortgage Market Reform And The Fallacy Of Self-Correcting Markets, Robin Paul Malloy
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Unsafe Loans In A Deregulated U.S. Mortgage Market, Vincent Di Lorenzo
Unsafe Loans In A Deregulated U.S. Mortgage Market, Vincent Di Lorenzo
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Can't Live Without Air: Title Insurance And The Bursting Of The Real Estate Bubble, Marvin N. Bagwell
Can't Live Without Air: Title Insurance And The Bursting Of The Real Estate Bubble, Marvin N. Bagwell
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Glance At The Impact Of The Subprime Mortgage Crisis On The Title Insurance Industry, Suzanne M. Garcia
A Glance At The Impact Of The Subprime Mortgage Crisis On The Title Insurance Industry, Suzanne M. Garcia
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
State Subprime Lending Litigation And Federal Preemption: Toward A National Standard, Alan H. Scheiner
State Subprime Lending Litigation And Federal Preemption: Toward A National Standard, Alan H. Scheiner
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Importance Of Deceptive Practice Enforcement In Financial Institution Regulation, Prentiss Cox
The Importance Of Deceptive Practice Enforcement In Financial Institution Regulation, Prentiss Cox
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Superfund Solution For An Economic Love Canal, Mehmet K. Konar-Steenberg
A Superfund Solution For An Economic Love Canal, Mehmet K. Konar-Steenberg
Pace Law Review
No abstract provided.
Yes, West Virginia, There Is A Special Priority For The Purchase Money Mortgage: The Recognition Of Purchase Money Mortgage Priority In West Virginia, Abraham M. Ashton
Yes, West Virginia, There Is A Special Priority For The Purchase Money Mortgage: The Recognition Of Purchase Money Mortgage Priority In West Virginia, Abraham M. Ashton
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Environmental Superliens And The Problem Of Mortgage-Backed Securitization, Jonathan Remy Nash
Environmental Superliens And The Problem Of Mortgage-Backed Securitization, Jonathan Remy Nash
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
But Can She Keep The Car? Some Thoughts On Collateral Retention In Consumer Chapter 7 Cases, Marianne B. Culhane, Michaela M. White
But Can She Keep The Car? Some Thoughts On Collateral Retention In Consumer Chapter 7 Cases, Marianne B. Culhane, Michaela M. White
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Facing The Facts: An Empirical Study Of The Fairness And Efficiency Of Foreclosures And A Proposal For Reform, Debra Pogrund Stark
Facing The Facts: An Empirical Study Of The Fairness And Efficiency Of Foreclosures And A Proposal For Reform, Debra Pogrund Stark
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Lenders view real estate foreclosures as too expensive and time consuming a process which needlessly increases the costs of making loans. Others complain that the foreclosure process fails to adequately protect the borrower's equity (the value of the property in excess of the debt secured by the property) in the mortgaged property.
This article tests these views by gathering new data on the fairness and efficiency of the foreclosure process. Based on the data collected (which confirms some assumptions but disproves others), the author proposes a reform of the foreclosure process to promote the interest of both lenders and borrowers. …
M&A: Survival Of The Fittest In The 21st Century: Strategic Positioning In The Banking And Communications Industries - M&A In The Banking Industry Investment Banking Perspective, Neil Mccarthy
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Eliminating The Labyrinth: A Proposal To Simplify Federal Mortgage Lending Discrimination Laws, Stephen M. Dane
Eliminating The Labyrinth: A Proposal To Simplify Federal Mortgage Lending Discrimination Laws, Stephen M. Dane
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The object of this Article is to demonstrate that the statutory and regulatory framework established by the federal government in its efforts to fight mortgage-lending discrimination is an extremely complicated labyrinth of dead ends, false passages, and elusive goals. Instead of addressing the mortgage-lending discrimination problem directly and comprehensively, Congress has taken a piecemeal and incomplete approach that generally has failed to bring the mortgage-lending industry into equal access compliance.
After pointing out the problems and deficiencies in the current statutory and regulatory scheme, this Article suggests a bold, comprehensive solution to the problem that, if implemented effectively, should ensure …
Construction Lending: The Mortgagee's Right To Inspect The Construction Project And Duty To Ensure Proper Disbursement Of Construction Loan Proceeds, Douglas C. Franck
Construction Lending: The Mortgagee's Right To Inspect The Construction Project And Duty To Ensure Proper Disbursement Of Construction Loan Proceeds, Douglas C. Franck
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Taking And Federal Impairment Of Contract Issues In The Extension Of Preemption Of Due-On-Sale Restrictions Beyond Federal Savings And Loans, Susan Lacava
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.