The Mortgage Netherworld
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On April 26, 2009 @ 1:24 pm In Credit,Legal,Real Estate | Comments Disabled
I meant to mention this NYT article [1] from Thursday, with a wild graphical depiction of MERS — Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems — that holds over 60 million mortgages on American homes:
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via NYT [2]
The full article is worth reading . . .
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Source:
Tracking Loans Through a Firm That Holds Millions [1]
MIKE McINTIRE
NYT, April 23, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/business/24mers.html
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