South Florida Law Blog

As the Florida real estate and general economy are improving, with average sales prices increasing, the number of foreclosures dropping and unemployment also increasing a funny thing happened as we continue through this recovery: re-foreclosures are up. Re-foreclosures you ask?  That’s right. A re-foreclosure is when the bank for whatever reason dismissed the first foreclosure or in some cases homeowners […]

“I understand they don’t like the idea that people can end up with free houses but this undermines and defies the purpose of a statute of limitations,” said foreclosure defense attorney Roy Oppenheim, who is fighting a high-profile foreclosure deadline case in Boca Raton in which homeowners stand to win a multimillion-dollar waterfront mansion. “This is going to create a bizarre and unintended set of circumstances.”