CORONA, CA—June 15, 2011—The California Department of Real Estate has recognized PartnerFirst’s HAFA Specialist Certification (HSC) as valid continuing education (CE) for licensed real estate agents —  coinciding with the increased success of the federal government’s Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives program nationwide. California agents who successfully complete the HSC online course will receive eight hours of continuing education credits.

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A Lender Processing Services (LPS) division will go live with its new short sale broker/agent network within 60 to 90 days, company officials told REO Insider.

The network is designed to help servicers respond to the increasing volume of short sales, LPS said.

LPS Asset Management Solutions, a division of LPS, began discussing the creation of the network in January as the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program was getting ready to roll out, said Danielle Washburn, assistant vice president marketing for LPS Asset Management Solutions.

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CORONA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PartnerFirst announces the release of its HAFA Specialist Certification (HSC), which incorporates recent changes to the Treasury Department's Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA) program that go into effect February 1, 2011. The HSC course educates real estate agents in the elements of HAFA, which offers help for distressed borrowers seeking to avoid foreclosure. The new changes promise to make HAFA more effective in addressing the national default crisis. Agents seeking to specialize in HAFA short sales will need the up-to-date training HSC provides.

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PartnerFirst LLC of Corona, California, has added mortgage default industry executive Bill Breeden to its team as principal and chief development officer.

Breeden, a former SVP at ServiceLink and AssetLink, was also COO and CFO at Moss Codilis, Stawiarski, Morris, Schneider & Prior, LLP.

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