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NYT Magazine Writer Roger Lowenstein hits it on the head when he takes Mortgage Bankers to task, Plus why I believe MBA President John Courson is WRONG and CLUELESS Roger Lowenstein, an extremely well respected financial journalist took the trade association for mortgage bankers (the MBA) to task in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine for calling homeowners “immoral” who strategically […]

It was 4:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving eve at my office, and I was enjoying a moment of quiet phones as I cleared my desk and my mind. The one call that did come was from The Wall Street Journal Real Estate reporter James (Bob) R. Hagarty. He was working on a story about homeowners who are creating their own bailouts, […]

WSJ reporter, James Hagerty, arguably one of the best reporters covering the real estate crisis and with whom I speak with from time-to time wrote a great article this morning concerning professional investors who are going to auction, fixing up the houses and then flipping them for a profit. (Also take the time to look at the slides and related […]

As a foreclosure defense attorney, I get questions every day asking when I think the market is going to correct itself or when the foreclosure rate is going to slow. I believe my friend Al Sunshine, who has been reporting for CBS4 since 1988, provided a thoughtful and honest assessment of South Florida’s economy through the next quarter in his […]

I am a subscriber to the South Florida Real Estate Newsletter written by Evan Rosen, a South Florida Realtor. Each month, Evan sends out a recap of the current real estate trends in South Florida (Palm Beach, Broward, Dade). This month included interesting statistics about the South Florida real estate landscape and compared current and past trends. Read Evan’s analysis […]

BY MONICA HATCHER mhatcher@MiamiHerald.com The number of foreclosures in Miami-Dade and Broward continued rising last month, as mounting job losses crippled borrowers’ ability to make monthly payments and lenders lifted previous foreclosure moratoriums and resumed legal action against delinquent accounts. In Miami-Dade County, lenders filed 3,043 initial foreclosure actions against homeowners and reclaimed 819 homes through foreclosure. Hundreds more were […]

While I have been so busy in court defending foreclosures I hardly took notice that our staff at Weston Title have been getting busy! We have now more South Florida real estate closings in the office than we have had in at least 6 months! In fact, the Wall Street Journal reported that 18 percent of all U.S. households will […]

Considering South Florida has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country, it isn’t surprising that the media is looking for expert legal advice on how to fight foreclosure and defend local homeowners. I recently shared with Channel 7’s Reporter Andre Hepkins about what options homeowners have to defend the foreclosure process and reinforce that there is hope in […]