11. MORTGAGE-SCAMS -- The federal government presents a plan to crack down on strategies that defraud individuals who hold reverse mortgages. 12. Rockefeller Center Properties is a real estate investment trust whose only business is to hold the mortgage on Rockefeller Center. 13. That left the property to the publicly owned partnership that held the mortgage on the property. 14. The banks that helped Trump will get some money, as will a Japanese bank that holds a mortgage on the hotel. 15. The company either holds these mortgages in its portfolio or packages them into guaranteed mortgage-backed securities for sale to investors. 16. The higher yield spread suggests investors want more compensation for the risk of holding mortgages. 17. The mortgage is held by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 18. The only constant has been Barry H. Levites, whose large real estate company either owned the buildings or held the mortgage. 19. The Yankees bought Babe Ruth and held the mortgage on Fenway Park. 20. Rockefeller Center Properties Inc., which holds the mortgage on Rockefeller Center, said Tuesday it signed an agreement with the group led by Zell. |