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Legal League: Paving the Path for Servicing Professionals

Appraisal Buzz

Hladik, Chair, Legal League This article originally appeared in the March 2025 edition of MortgagePoint magazine, online now. Hladik serves as Chair of Legal League , and is a Partner at Hladik, Onorato & Federman LLP. Q: What were some of the key accomplishments of Legal League in 2024?

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Servicers, Attorneys, and Government Representatives to Convene at 2025 Legal League Summit

Appraisal Buzz

Open to all mortgage lending and servicing professionals, GSEs , government entities, and Legal League members, the annual Spring Servicer Summit gathers the nations elite financial services law firms to discuss default policies, procedures, and emerging issues with leading mortgage servicing executives.

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Navigating movement in the mortgage industry series: Due diligence in mergers and acquisitions

Housing Wire

The checklist covers such broad areas and topics as: organizational structure; litigation; compliance ; intellectual property; real property; financial and tax; labor and employment; material, vendor, and software contracts; insurance; and customers. Nettleingham is a shareholder at Maddin Hauser.

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Georgia looks to protect residents from title theft with new law

Housing Wire

The law also allows the owner of any real property to bring an action against an individual who has knowingly filed, or recorded, in any public record a false or forged deed or other instrument purporting to convey the owner’s interest to such real property to such individual or a third party.

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Velocity Conference Presents Solutions for an Evolving Market

Appraisal Buzz

Set for Monday-Tuesday, February 24-25 at The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel , the 2025 Velocity, A FORCE Conference , is tailored for professionals in REO and the adjacent markets, including agents and brokers, asset managers, property management, attorneys, and servicers.

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Highest and Best Use: A Superpower You Already Possess

Appraisal Buzz

Lets revisit the basics: In an H&BU analysis, real estate appraisers determine the most probable use of a property by applying four tests: whether the use is legally permissible , physically possible , financially feasible , and maximally productive. The result of this test is the most probable use of the real estate.

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Remote online notarization is the proper path forward for digital closings

Housing Wire

The model legislation creates legal certainty across the country by providing a uniform and consistent framework that is based on a common set of core principles. All states — except Illinois and New York — have legalized electronic transactions, signatures and notarizations by enacting the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).

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