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Sukhvir Basran is a banking and finance attorney at Cadwalader's London office. Sukhvir advises financial institutions on incorporating innovative financing.

As attendees from the MBA’s servicing conference headed home this week, they may have learned that some airport lounges are cutting back on free guests. Some of those attendees work for depository banks, and they are in flux when it comes to servicing portfolios: Certainly reports of the majority of them shedding servicing are erroneous. Reports have Mr. Cooper, Nationstar, Chase, PNC, 5 3, all increasing their servicing portfolios. Other trends being discussed in the hallways at the conference include an increased scrutiny of regulators and auditors of the fair value of servicing, and ...

Not every house is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, single story subdivision home. Appraisers and underwriters aren’t big fans of places that aren’t, due to the lack of comps or the problems in “salability” should something go wrong. Inventive housing? Watch this house slide open to reveal Flexible Spaces (and an open-air bathroom). Some people have a home theater, but here’s a theater home for sale. And, finding homeowner’s insurance aside, what do kids do in this house when told to clean their room? Housing prices, just like mortgage rates, have at their base th...

I am in Reno today, Spokane tomorrow, but I spent much of last week in Chicago which is very much a melting pot of languages. One can walk down the street and hear similar words for the same thing: Hypothèque (French), hipoteca (Spanish), hipotēka (Latvian), hypotheek (Dutch), and hypothek (German). You’ll have to figure out the word on your own. Renovation there is indicative of what is happening in many other cities: Developers and city agencies in Chicago are working together on the LaSalle Street initiative, which seeks to bring 1,000 homes (including 300 affordable o...

As noted in yesterday’s commentary, mergers and acquisitions of lenders are in the news across the nation. For curious lenders, it is good to have a general guide in how a buyer goes about valuing a lender. I happen to be in rainy Chicago now, but 1,700 miles away, there’s interesting news from the Phoenix area and the desert. How would you appraise a perfectly fine home that had no water? Rio Verde, aptly named Green River, a neighborhood outside of Scottsdale, Arizona, with some 2,000 homes, recently learned that there is not a stable water supply. The 1980s Groundwater Managem...