Vintage Home Sales: The New Market

Call them vintage. classic or just plain old, homes of a certain age are quietly driving housing sales in markets around the country, as investors and residential home buyers alike snap up these older properties at bargain – basement prices. According to a new report...

Do Nuisance Ordinances Hurt Landlords?

Across the country, communities small and large have enacted ordinances aimed at combating neighborhood crime. Under names like “nuisance ordinances” or “landlord 911 laws,” these local laws are now facing legal challenges because of the harm they can cause to both...

Bank Fraud Fallout Continues With Chase Settlement

While Bank of America has been grabbing headlines lately as the poster child for problematic mortgage and securities transactions dating back to the housing crash of 2008 and before, JP Morgan Chase has been conducting it own legal battles on similar charges of...

The Bitcoin, the Silk Road, and the FBI

How did the FBI end up with over $3 million in Bitcoins? How did the virtual currency become the medium of choice for transactions on the cybernarcotics site Silk Road? And more important, perhaps – why should we care? The saga of the world’s first digital money...

Automated Assessments Protect Lenders – But How About Borrowers?

To lenders worried about how the Qualified Mortgage Rule will affect mortgage loan liability: never fear, automated assessment tools are here, as a growing number of software companies offer online solutions to help mortgage lenders negotiate the provisions of the QM...