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Electronic Registry Signs Up Five Commercial Servicers.(Brief Article)

Mortgage Servicing News

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MERS, the industry-owned utility for tracking ownership interests in home loans and servicing rights, has announced that five major lenders are providing initial funding for an electronic registry to track interests in commercial mortgage loans.

Wells Fargo, Bear Stearns, Banc of America, GE Capital and GMAC helped finance the project, and MERS said it will begin development in September on MERS Commercial.

The venture is endorsed by the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

MERS says the electronic registry will allow originators of commercial mortgage loans and issuers of securities backed by the loans hundreds of dollars per loan in assignment preparation and recordation costs.

MERS also said that participants will benefit from having access to a standardized final ...

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