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APPROXIMATELY 22,965 CHECKS AVERAGING $1,480 COMING TO COLORADO BORROWERS THROUGH NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT
DENVER - June 5, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Colorado borrowers who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will receive a check this month for an average of $1,480. To date, the total cash payments for mortg...
N.J. Borrowers Impacted by National Mortgage Settlement to Receive $1,400-Plus Claim Checks This Month
TRENTON - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced today that New Jersey borrowers who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will receive a check this month for appro...
Ohio Claimants to Receive Payments from the National Mortgage Settlement by June 17th
COLUMBUS, OH - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced that eligible Ohioans who lost their homes to foreclosure will be sent settlement payments by June 17th. The payment checks will be worth approximately ...
THDA Mortgages Ready for Homeownership Month – Funds Available Statewide through Lenders
NASHVILLE, TN - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Saturday marked the beginning of National Homeownership Month- an annual recognition of the important role housing plays in creating jobs, maintaining viable communities, providing stability for famili...
AG Kilmartin Announces National Mortgage Settlement Checks to Be Mailed this Month
WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today announced that approximately 2,737 Rhode Island homeowners who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will rec...
More Than 14,000 Wisconsin Borrowers Who Lost Their Homes to Foreclosure to Receive Payments...
MADISON - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that more than $21.85 million dollars will be distributed to 14,723 Wisconsin residents who lost their homes to foreclosure. Payments are expected to be at le...
Attorney General Bondi Will Join Governor Scott for Bill Signing Following Governor and Cabinet...
TALLAHASSEE, FL - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi will join Governor Rick Scott for the signing of Senate Bill 1852, which appropriates the remaining $200 million of Florida’s portion of the national mortgage settlement ...
National Mortgage Settlement to Begin Payments to Eligible Borrowers Who Lost Homes to Foreclosure
WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Over 50,000 Georgia borrowers who submitted a valid foreclosure payment claim through the National Mortgage Settlement will receive a check this month for approximately $1,480. The total amount to b...
Kentucky Borrowers to Receive More than $11 Million in Mortgage Servicing Abuse Payments
WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway today announced the distribution of more than $11 million to 7,801 eligible borrowers in Kentucky for mortgage servicing abuses. Checks to borrowers who submitt...
More than 1,300 Mainers slated to receive checks resulting from national ‘Robo-Signing’ abuses under...
AUGUSTA - June 4, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The practice of ‘robo-signing’ documents that led to widespread abuses by national mortgage servicing companies led to a landmark $1.5 billion settlement against five of America’s largest firms. About ...
Rep. Johnson No. 1 in helping constituents save their homes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 3, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman’s office assisted in HomeSafe GA outreach, helping nearly 700 homeowners prevent foreclosures in the Fourth Congressional District
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen Announces National Mortgage Settlement Relief Exceeds $23 Million for...
MADISON - May 23, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that Wisconsin borrowers received $23.5 million in mortgage loan-related relief in the first quarter of 2013 under the National Mortgage Settlement. Adding to...
AG Kilmartin Reports National Mortgage Settlement Consumer Relief Data
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today reported on the progress made by the nation's five largest mortgage service providers to assist Rhode Island homeowners under the National Mortgage Settleme...
COLORADO UPDATES CONSUMER RELIEF DATA FROM NATIONAL MORTGAGE SETTLEMENT
DENVER - May 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Joseph A. Smith, Jr., Monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement, has received an update on the consumer relief activities the five banks that are parties to the Settlement reported through March 31, 2013. T...
Massachusetts Homeowners Continue to Benefit from National Mortgage Settlement
BOSTON, MA - May 22, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Massachusetts homeowners have received more than $637 million in total consumer relief during the first full year since the National Mortgage Settlement, according to numbers provided by the five major ba...
Mortgage Assistance Extended for Montanans Struggling to Find Work
Helena, MT - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montana Department of Labor and Industry announces an extension of a federal program that may help unemployed homeowners in Montana by providing mortgage relief and alternatives to foreclosure. The Ma...
Attorney General Bondi Announces that More Than 111,000 Floridians Received Nearly $9 Billion in...
TALLAHASSEE, FL - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Floridians have received nearly $9 billion in relief under the national mortgage settlement, as reported by the five largest mortgage servicing banks that ar...
Connecticut Homeowners Continue To Benefit from National Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General George Jepsen said Connecticut’s distressed homeowners continue to benefit from first-lien principal reductions and other mortgage relief programs resulting from the $25 billion n...
AG Gansler’s Mortgage Servicing Settlement Exceeds $1.3 Billion in Direct Relief; Checks to Eligible...
Baltimore, MD - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that 16,627 Maryland families have received more than $1.3 billion in relief from the National Mortgage Settlement during the period of March 1, 2012...
Relief for Kentucky Homeowners Tops $61M Under National Mortgage Settlement
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway today announced that the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers continue to provide direct relief to homeowners in Kentucky and across the country as part o...
Two Alabama Real Estate Investors and Their Company Sentenced for Their Roles in Bid-Rigging...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 21, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Two Alabama real estate investors and their company were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile, for their participation in conspiracies to rig bids an...
Utah Housing Corporation and the Granite Technical Institute Celebrate the Completion of another ECHO...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A new home built by students is near completion and has a sale pending with a home buyer in West Valley City as a result of a partnership between Utah Housing Corporation and Granite Technical Insti...
Alexandria’s First Half Real Estate Tax Bills Mailed May 14
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 20, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- The City of Alexandria has mailed bills for the first half 2013 real estate tax and refuse fee to all property owners and/or mortgage companies. Although the residential refuse fee was decreased to ...
East Bay Home Building Company Sales Manager Pleads Guilty to Bribing Bank Loan Officer
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 17, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jason Sterlino pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to paying bribes to a bank official in order to procure residential mortgage loans, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced
Alabama Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court’s Recognition of MERS’ Authority to Assign Mortgages
Reston, Virginia - May 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that a five-justice panel of the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision which in part validated MERS’ ability to assign mortgages as the ...
Dorchester Man Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud and Identity Theft
BOSTON - May 15, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- A Dorchester man was sentenced yesterday for operating a mortgage fraud scheme to sell his own home and to buy other residential properties.
Phase II of Compensation from the Oklahoma Mortgage Settlement Fund now open
OKLAHOMA CITY - May 13, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Scott Pruitt Monday announced the opening of Phase II of homeowner compensation from the Oklahoma Mortgage Settlement Fund.
Congressman Andrews Announces New Housing Construction Jobs in Winslow
HADDON HEIGHTS, NJ - May 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- Today, Congressman Andrews announced that a federally backed construction project is underway in Winslow Township, creating 35 new construction jobs according to Eastern Pacific Development. The ...
Christie Administration Announces $2 Million in State Financing for Affordable Housing Project in Winslow...
TRENTON, N.J. - May 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Richard E. Constable, III, Chair of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA), and HMFA Executive Director Anthony L. March...
State Targets Peoria to Promote Homebuyer Down Payment Assistance and Foreclosure Prevention Help
PEORIA - May 10, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- State and city officials today announced Governor Pat Quinn’s plans to bring affordable homebuying options and foreclosure prevention relief to Peoria residents. The state’s housing finance agency, the Il...
