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Distressed Real Estate During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure Involving Commercial Real Estate

In a deed in lieu of foreclosure, a defaulting borrower agrees to convey the mortgaged property to the mortgage lender. But handing over the keys can raise a number of potential pitfalls. Below, we discuss some of these...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Nonrecourse Loan Pitfalls During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Real estate borrowers often prefer nonrecourse loans, which can eliminate or reduce the risk of having to satisfy a deficiency judgment if a project goes bad. However, most nonrecourse loans have carve-outs or exceptions to...more

Perkins Coie

Double Trouble—Is Black Sky Capital Blue Skies for Lenders?

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An annoying question for lenders is whether or not a lender can enforce two loans to the same borrower and secured by the same property. The nagging issue is usually raised when a lender makes (1) a first loan and an...more

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When is a Question of Fact NOT a Question of Fact?

His light was red, swore the nuns. My light was green, slurred the drunk. Question of fact, ruled the judge. Summary judgment, denied. If cases were that simple, our courts wouldn’t have enough to do. Trial court motion...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

North Carolina Supreme Court Adopts "Substantial Competent Evidence" Requirement for Borrowers Asserting "True Value" Defense in...

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On Friday, May 5, 2017, in a major victory for lenders, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the North Carolina Court of Appeals’s decision in United Community Bank v. Wolfe. In July 2015, the Court of Appeals decided in...more

Maynard Nexsen

CentsAbility: Creditors' Rights Law Update - South Carolina Court of Appeals applies Uniform Commercial Code Six-Year Statute of...

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This summer, the South Carolina Court of Appeals decided the appeal of Coastal Federal Credit Union v. Brown. The Court had to determine which statute of limitations applied to the credit union’s action to collect a...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

No right to jury trial in foreclosure, even where lender seeks money judgment on promissory note

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Given the choice, a borrower in foreclosure may prefer that a jury determine her fate, rather than a judge.  But by statute, “[a]ll mortgages shall be foreclosed in equity” and “foreclosure claim[s] shall, if tried, be tried...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Indiana Court Weighs in Deficiency Judgments

The Indiana Court of Appeals recently held that creditors must move for an in personam remedy in the original foreclosure judgment or forfeit their right to collect deficiency funds. In Elliott v. Dyck O’Neal, the bank...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

High Point Bank v. Highmark and Guarantor Liability in North Carolina

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When a borrower’s default results in a foreclosure sale and purchase of the secured property by the mortgagee lender, can a guarantor’s deficiency liability be reduced by the difference between the property’s fair market...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Great News for Lenders—A Recent Decision Further Limits the Sham Guaranty Defense

Recently, and shortly after my visit to several lender clients to make presentations regarding, among other topics, the enforceability of commercial guaranty agreements and the sham guaranty defense, the California Court of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Borrowers Can Avoid Liability Even After a Trustee’s Sale

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Since a lender must have a valid debt and valid lien to conduct a trustee’s sale, a borrower that allows the foreclosure sale to occur impliedly agrees that the debt and lien are valid. In Madison v. Groseth and BT Capital,...more

Nossaman LLP

The Demise of Deficiency Judgments in Residential Loans

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Among the many changes in the financial services industry, two important events occurred this year that effectively signaled the extinction of deficiency judgments in loans secured by residential property. ...more

Clark Hill PLC

Client Alert: The Arizona Court of Appeals Holds the Right to a Fair Market Value Hearing Cannot be Waived in a Deficiency Action

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In CSA 13-101 Loop, LLC v. Loop l01, LLC, et al., Loop 101 borrowed $15.6 million from MidFirst (which later assigned its rights under the loan to CSA as an intercompany transfer) to build a commercial office building. The...more

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Popeye And Purchase Money Loans

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In Enloe v. Kelso, 2013 WL 3357884 (2d Dist. 2013), the Second District Court of Appeal wrote a (characteristically) “short and sweet” opinion holding that the prohibition on obtaining a deficiency judgment under a deed of...more

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A Loan Enforcement e-Newsletter - Missouri Foreclosures: A Changing Landscape?

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In This Issue: - Missouri Foreclosures: A Changing Landscape? - Missouri Law on Non-Judicial Foreclosure: A Primer Measuring Deficiencies Under Missouri Law - Fischer & Frichtel - Sunrise Farms - Conclusion...more

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