Monthly Archives: August 2012

Massachusetts has another shiny new foreclosure prevention law on the books this month — the second new one in two years, but perhaps the biggest feature of this piece of legislation is what isn’t in it. Mandatory mediation for homeowners seeking mortgage modifications. Under the original proposal of the state Senate, before a residential foreclosure […]

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick signed into law new legislation on foreclosure rules on August 3, 2012. For those of you counting, this is the second major change in Massachusetts foreclosure law in the last two years. The ink isn’t really dry on the new law yet, so its hard to even find the exact wording […]