Florida District Courts of Appeal, 2016

Prieto v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n

Prieto v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 2, 2016 · Logue, Salter, Scales
201 So. 3d 659; 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 3069 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

Prieto v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n

Opinion of the Court

ON CONFESSION OF ERROR

LOGUE, J.

In this foreclosure case, the borrowers appeal the post-judgment order denying their motion to vacate the foreclosure sale. The property was sold to the lender while the borrowers’ timely motion for rehearing of the judgment was pending. Based on the lender’s commendable confession of error, we agree that the foreclosure sale must be set aside. See Wollman v. Levy, 489 So.2d 1239 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986) (“Once a timely motion for rehearing is made, the operation of the judgment is suspended until the motion is disposed of. [The borrowers] timely moved for a rehearing; therefore, the sale of the property should not have been carried out until the motion had been acted upon.”) (internal citations omitted); Hoffman v. BankUnited, N.A., 137 So.3d 1039 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) (“[W]e agree that the foreclosure sale of the property must be set aside because the sale was conducted while [the borrower’s] timely motion for rehearing was pending.”).

Reversed and remanded.

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