Dovenmuehle Mortgage INC.
Unclaimed Property

Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc. currently holds $27.0 million in unclaimed property spread across 47,771 individual records in California alone. As a major mortgage servicing company, most of these unclaimed funds originate from mortgage escrow account refunds, property tax overpayments, insurance refunds, and final account balances that borrowers never collected after paying off their loans or refinancing.

Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc. is a leading residential mortgage loan servicer that manages mortgage payments, escrow accounts, and property tax payments for hundreds of thousands of borrowers nationwide. The most common scenarios where Dovenmuehle customers lose track of money include escrow account surpluses after loan payoffs, property insurance refunds when policies are cancelled, uncashed final payment refunds after refinancing, and overpayments that occurred during the loan servicing process.

California's major metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego show the highest concentration of claims, reflecting both the state's large population and historically active real estate markets where Dovenmuehle has serviced numerous loans. Many borrowers don't realize that when they pay off a mortgage or refinance with a different lender, any remaining balance in their escrow account should be refunded - but if the check goes to an old address or gets misplaced, that money eventually becomes unclaimed property.

Founded in 1844, Dovenmuehle has undergone various corporate changes over its long history, which means some property holders may not immediately recognize the company name even though they previously had mortgage accounts serviced by them.

The average claim from Dovenmuehle Mortgage INC. is $565.