by Calculated Risk on 10/07/2010 10:23:00 PM

From Andrew Martin and David Streitfeld at the NY Times: Flawed Foreclosure Documents Thwart Home Sales

[A]s a scandal unfolds over mortgage lenders’ shoddy preparation of foreclosure documents, the fallout is beginning to hammer the housing market, especially in states like Florida where distressed properties are abundant. ... the agents are being told the freeze will last 30 to 90 days ...

[One Florida] agency had 35 deals that were supposed to close this month. As of Thursday, Fannie had postponed 11 of them.

This will probably just be a delay. And the delays will mostly be in the judicial foreclosure states, although the story has one example of a house withdrawn from the market in California.