Servicers last week rejected offers from Richmond, CA to purchase 624 mortgages located in the city. Richmond now plans to seize the mortgages via eminent domain but has yet to make the move and faces significant opposition from mortgage industry participants. The five servicers participating in the $25 billion national servicing settlement have provided borrowers with $51.33 billion in gross relief through the end of the second quarter of 2013, according to the settlement’s monitor ... [Includes five briefs]