Offshoring home-loan services 
Workers in Mumbai, Costa Rica attend to U.S. real estate
By Inman News, Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
Stanley Varghese, an REO sales consultant for West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Ocwen Loan Servicing, contacts brokers to get opinions on the value of bank-owned foreclosure properties, has the properties cleaned and repaired, and arranges showings -- and does it all from Mumbai, India, some 7,800 miles from New York City.
Varghese is one of a growing number of third-party workers in other countries working with home loans and distressed properties for U.S. financial institutions. Foreclosure processes, loan servicing, loan modifications and loan processing are increasingly being moved overseas in an effort to cut costs.
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