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Sunday, February 25, 2018

BRUNSWICK BANK & TRUST VS. HELN MANAGEMENT LLC, ET AL. A-1345-15T3


BRUNSWICK BANK & TRUST VS. HELN MANAGEMENT LLC, ET AL.
          A-1345-15T3
In these consolidated foreclosure actions, the trial judge conducted as required by our earlier decision, Brunswick Bank & Tr. v. Affiliated Bldg. Corp., 440 N.J. Super. 118 (App. Div. 2015) an evidentiary hearing to determine whether plaintiff, during its serial collection efforts, had recouped more than it was owed. The trial judge concluded that defendants failed to provide "competent" evidence on the fair market value of properties plaintiff obtained at sheriff sales at or about the time plaintiff neared a 100% recoupment of the money due on the combined loans. In remanding again, the court held, among other things, that the judge erred in concluding defendants' evidence was incompetent, that there was admissible evidence suggesting a fair market value in excess of the amount still owed to plaintiff, and that the trial court is authorized, in the absence of the parties' production of expert testimony, to retain its own expert to opine on these relevant subjects to ensure plaintiff does not receive an undue windfall.