New York Judge finds foreclosure time-barred and cancels Mortgage: Costa v. Deutsche Bank

Read Costa v. Deutsche Bank here: Costa v. Deutsche Bank 2017 03 29

Unlike Florida where there is no statute of limitations and every missed mortgage payment resets the clock, New York enforces the statute of limitations for debt collection including mortgages.

A federal judge has granted two New Rochelle, New York homeowners’ request to have their mortgage canceled, ending their nearly 10-year battle to keep their house after defaulting on a $544,000 mortgage loan they took out in 2006.

The decision on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan was a defeat for Deutsche Bank National Trust Co, trustee for a trust that owned the mortgage loan, which had argued that the couple was getting a free house on a technicality. Under New York state law, Vito and Marion Costa have a right to the property mortgage-free because a six-year statute of limitations on foreclosing on it had passed, Failla said.

More information to follow in the next week when we obtain the case specifics.

This is excellent news for New York homeowners and will hopefully be applied in other states.

Tags: Costa v. Deutsche Bank, New York foreclosure law, statute of limitations
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