Housing Meltdown - Aftermath
More and more issues creep up in the aftermath of the great housing meltdown. Tighter mortgage money is now followed by Title insurance companies looking for a guarantee that the title the are issuing is in fact that the lender represents it to be. Common sense underwriting…go figure!
Fidelity National Financial Inc., the largest U.S. title insurer by market share, will require lenders to sign a warranty assuring their paperwork is sound before backing sales of foreclosed homes.
An indemnity covering “incompetent or erroneous affidavit testimony or documentation” must be signed for all foreclosure sales closing on or after Nov. 1, the Jacksonville, Florida- based company said in a memorandum to employees today. The agreement was prepared in consultation with the American Land Title Association and mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Fidelity National said.
“It’s just the prudent thing to do,” Peter Sadowski, executive vice president and chief legal officer for Fidelity National, said in an interview. “It is important for the servicers and the lenders to represent to us and to the people we are going to be insuring that there are no problems.”
via Fidelity National to Require Banks to Sign Foreclosure Warranty – Bloomberg.
