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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, […]

Reporting on the winning and losing headlines, South Florida Law Blog brings you the break down and what this means to the Florida homeowner. While South Florida is #1 for mortgage fraud and foreclosure settlement talks between banks and the Obama administration appear futile at best, this week’s new was not all doom and gloom. Check out Oppenheim Law and Weston […]

Oppenheim Law tells all at 6 pm tonight with perspective on the state of Florida Real Estate via a free Webcast or be part of a live audience in Boca Raton.   Homeownership will no longer define the American Dream. That’s because 30-year, fixed–mortgage loans that we’ve known since the 1950s may become a luxury if the federal government tightens […]

In Monday’s The New York Times editorial The Fed and Foreclosures, The Times finally took the Fed to task. They wrote: “There are two sides to every delinquent loan – a lender who made a bad lending decision and a borrower who cannot repay. Yet banks have never acted as if they bear any responsibility for the mortgage mess.” The […]

In today’s New York Times (10/9/09) the lead story in the Business section is: “In Trial Phase, Mortgage Bills Fall for 500,000. Is that supposed to be good news or news at all? I am not sure. I guess it depends on whether you think the glass is half full or half empty. The reality is that by now the […]