South Florida Law Blog

Real Estate headlines this week have been a mixed bag of good, sad and ugly. While the Fort Lauderdale condo market and Broward home sales trended upward, news broke Broward Chief Judge Victor Tobin was resigning his position to work for a law firm that has been called one of the largest foreclosure mills in the state. In national news, […]

Wall Street corruption blurs the lines between good guys and bad guys as this week’s headlines bubble to the top. Unbelievably guilty in the court of public opinion. Now ultimately guilty in a court of law. The conviction of Galleon hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam on all 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud is a prime example of rampant […]

When will Florida see the sunny side of real estate again? Find out what the attorney, developer and media think. The first episode of Oppenheim Law’s new talk show “From the Trenches” is now live on Oppenheim Law’s You Tube Channel. Real estate attorney and award-winning legal blogger Roy Oppenheim joined guests CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock and Real […]

Join leading Florida Foreclosure Defense Attorney Roy Oppenheim and special guests CBS4 Chief Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock and Florida real estate developer Patrick Sessions in the first episode of Oppenheim’s new talk show reviewing the Florida real estate saga past, present and future. The first episode of From The Trenches will play on Oppenheim Law’s YouTube Channel starting Thursday May […]

It’s an understatement to say that homeowners have had it up to here with banks and the foreclosure process. Those caught up in the wake of the foreclosure crisis often see the banks as heartless and just out to make a buck. Some feel like what the banks have done to the American homeowner is criminal. And they just might […]

Orlando’s got the Florida real estate Magic and Miami has the Heat! Reports are in that Miami and Orlando are dragging Florida out of recession, but for now only Orlando is performing above its economic weight class. The Miami Herald reported this week that while Orlando represents just 14 percent of Florida’s 7.2 million-person workforce, it accounts for 46 percent […]

Foreclosure or loan modification? Banks say foreclosure; homeowner says loan modification. CBS4 interviews foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim for the CBS Miami news broadcast tonight at 11:00 ET. Oppenheim, along with Chief Consumer Investigator and “4 Your Money” host Al Sunshine discuss the current Florida foreclosure crisis, focusing on why banks would rather foreclose on your home than consider a […]

As Florida real estate slowly pulls itself out of the foreclosure fraud files; there is finally a government agency standing up to the bully of banks! The IRS. Last week, Reuters News Service published an exclusive article exposing yet another way the banks have been defrauding taxpayers. This time it wasn’t directly through improper lending practices, robo-signing or bad assignments […]