The comedy of errors continues as payouts trickle out to victims of wrongful foreclosures in the robosigning settlement case. A month after the first wave of checks began bouncing at banks around the country, another group of recipients are being told that they’ll get...
Everybody needs a place to live, says Jason Hartman, and that’s why real estate remains a solid investment that can weather many of the ups and downs of the economy in general. And now, continued low interest rates and a housing market on the rebound combine to create...
Just when it seemed the dust was settling in the various lawsuits and settlements resulting from charges of mortgage and securities fraud leveled at the nation’s biggest bank, new reports reveal that Bank of America is once again in trouble. This time the financial...
Real estate fraud takes many forms and targets all areas of the housing market, with an impact on investors, homeowners and renters all over the country. Because these schemes can be hard to spot, we’ll wrap up this week’s intermittent series on housing related fraud...
The Nigerian Internet scheme is so well known, it’s become a joke. But now, variations of that scam are targeting the housing market, snagging unwary home sellers and buyers with a mix of pathos and pressure on marketplace sites like Craigslist and eBay. Fraud...
