Distressed loans

There was an article in either Bloomberg or the NY Times yesterday about vulture capitalists buying huge chunks of foreclosed properties from banks. I haven't found that article yet but while I was looking I came across this related story (see link above) about investors buying bad loans and mortgages. What I found interesting was that leon Black, principal of Apollo Group and owner of Realogy (which, in turn, owns Century 21, Sotheby's and Coldwell Banker) is NOT interested in buying bad mortgages, even for pennies on the dollar. Does he know something he should be telling us? A little buyer's remorse going on? We'll see, perhaps.