New orleans Mortgage News

Fannie Mae and a Zillion Small Mortgage Abuses
The real problem with the mortage crisis wasn't its enormity, but how routine the whole thing was, an accumulation of small abuses in a system designed to overlook them, or at least totally unequipped to catch them. This piece by the New York Times's Gretchen Morgenson shines a light on this problem, which is one reason - maybe the main one - why the mortgage mess persists, and resists all ...

Mortgage Q&A: Fed goals, fee increase n conflict
I'm off to New Orleans for a long weekend and am filing my column early, much to the delight of my editor, who can attest to the fact that I'm usually late. New Orleans seems like a fun place to celebrate my 25-year wedding anniversary. To the readers, thank you ...

New Orleans mayor seeks tighter rein on housing agencies amid blight fight
Mitch Landrieu has goal of eliminating more than 6,500 blighted New Orleans properties in the next 22 months

Tom Taylor Agency celebrates 50 years in business
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Tom Taylor grew up in west Huntsville, attended West Huntsville High School and got married during his senior trip to New Orleans.

House of the Rising Sun: In New Orleans, Solar Power Gives Poor Families a Boost
The headquarters of the solar-energy company Sustainable Environmental Enterprises is a green oddity in this rough part of New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. The butterfly-winged roof and lopsided, Lego building design, complete with a money green paint job , fits anything but neatly in this residential neighborhood where run-down shotgun-style houses are strewn amidst blighted properties ...

Foreclosure Prevention Tactics Spotlighted at ABA Midyear Meeting
At an ABA Midyear Meeting panel discussion Feb. 2 on foreclosure issues, an Atlanta litigator who serves the mortgage industry joined a New Orleans legal services lawyer who specializes in foreclosure defense and two Washington, D.C., affordable housing advocates.

New Orleans creeps into the digital age as paper records go online
Clerk of Civil District Court Dale Atkins signs agreement that should see files available electronically by late fall

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, at Tulane, pledges results from NOPD revamp
Without offering specifics, he forecast widespread improvements as a result of the consent decree