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Friday Round-Up; Foreclosures Up Again, DeMarco Dances With Reductions; Bank...
Foreclosures, repos up from last year in South Florida I said after the foreclosure settlement was announced that banks had been given the green light to rev up their foreclosures engines, and in South...
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New Ideas To Fix The Housing Crisis? Nothing to See Here
With the presidential race entering its final stretch and with the employment figures remaining effectively flat, one would think that the housing crisis would have already been front and center by...
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Machiavelli, Alive and Well, In Illinois?
A statue Niccolò Machiavelli sitting outside of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy. Macchiavelli was a philospher, humanist and writer. Since I started the South Florida Law Blog following the 2008...
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Why The Housing Bubble Burst: Explaining Economic Homicide
Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homes and is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. It is easy to call Wall Street a villain and lay the blame...
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Two-Faced Freddie Mac, The Fiscal Cliff and the Obamacare Real Estate Tax,...
Continuing our recap of our most popular blogs from 2012… #5 — Robosigning Settlement Proves Sky Was Falling! Chicken Little Was Right! Yesterday’s robosigning settlement that all but one state...
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Banks fear courts’ ruling on negotiability of promissory notes
The following article was written and authored by Roy Oppenheim for The South Florida Law Blog. There’s been a lot of discussion over the last year or so about the negotiability of Fannie Mae and...
View ArticleUsher in 2016 with Roy Oppenheim chiming in on “The Big Short” movie
[VIDEO] Usher in 2016 with Roy Oppenheim chiming in on “The Big Short” an accurate and poignant dark comedy addressing a dark page in U.S. economic history. The Big Short movie brings to life the...
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Strategic Defaulters Are Public Enemy #1 Again (Unless They’re on Wall Street)
Roy Oppenheim’s commentary was originally published on Yahoo! Homesand is being republished on South Florida Law Blog with their permission. Deficiency judgments are probably the last thing any...
View ArticleFlorida Foreclosure Attorney Roy Oppenheim’s retrospection on the 10 year...
“A Retrospective From the Trenches of the Great Recession-The Parties to Blame” Welcome to the last part of my series of posts dedicated to reflecting on the ten-year anniversary of the Great...
View ArticleU.S. Home Sales Decline as More Americans Are Staying Put
Despite the recent interest rate cuts, U.S. home sales dropped more than expected in September. A new study sheds light on the typical American homeowner now staying in their home much longer and its...
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