Mortgage Lending: 3.2.7.1 Land Records
Local land records can be checked to determine the number of loans a particular lender made in that locality,57 the names and addresses of the affected borrowers, whether a lender has an unusually high number of foreclosures or is repeatedly flipping loans. In property flipping cases, the land records will identify the seller of the property and, in foreclosure rescue cases, the land records will show who acquired title to the property from the borrower. Many land record offices provide public access to their indices over the internet.