The Texas Attorney General's office has halted all foreclosures, all sales of properties previously foreclosed upon, and all evictions of persons residing in previously foreclosed upon properties, until mortgage companies have completed a review of their processes, including whether employees or agents "robosigned" affidavits and other documents recorded in Texas.
The AG suspension notices were sent to 30 mortgage-loan servicers doing business in Texas including:
American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.
American General Finance, Inc.
AmTrust Mortgage Corporation
Aurora Loan Servicec, Inc.
Bank of America
Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC
Cenlar, FSB
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
CitiMortgage, Inc.
EMC Mortgage Corporation
First Horizon National Corp.
Ally Financial, Inc./GMAC
Home Loan Services
HomEq Servicing, Inc.
HSBC North America Holdings, Inc.
Litton Loan Servicing, Inc.
MGC Mortgage, Inc.
Midland Mortgage Company
MorEquity, Inc.
National City Mortgage c/o PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Nationstar Mortgage Company
Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC
OneWest Bank Group LLC
PHH Mortgage Services Corporation
Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc.
Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc.
Washington Mutual
Wells Fargo & Company
Wilshire Credit Corporation
Expect more on this developing story in the next few days. We need to determine what impact this will have on existing sales contracts.
Source: Texas Association of REALTORS®
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