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In recent months, the Inland Empire real estate market has been steadily improving.

Oroville city firefighters protest proposed layoffs along Oro Dam Boulevard on Friday in Oroville.

Bank of America routinely denied qualified borrowers a chance to modify their loans to more affordable terms and paid cash bonuses to bank staffers for pushing homeowners into foreclosure, according to affidavits filed last week in a Massachusetts lawsuit.

Is the housing recovery for real? It looks that way, as a key measure of home builder confidence crossed a major threshold Monday.

Former employees say in a lawsuit that Bank of America rewarded staff with cash bonuses and gift cards for meeting quotas connected to sending homeowners into foreclosure, Bloomberg reported.

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On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed a package of foreclosure bills that will set Michigan back decades in its efforts to prevent foreclosures and the damage they cause to families, neighborhoods, communities and our still fragile economy.

According to a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court filed by six former Bank of America employees, service representatives were told to lie to homeowners, telling them their paperwork and payments had not been received, when in reality they had.

" Real Housewives of New Jersey " star Jacqueline Laurita will NOT have to live in a cardboard box ... TMZ has learned she struck a deal with her bank and SAVED her mansion from foreclosure! TMZ broke the story ... the reality TV star was sued by Hudson City Savings earlier this year.

The recent recovery in housing has led to immense optimism among investors that the worst of the housing bust is behind us.

The recent downturn in the real estate market has forced many properties into foreclosure or short sale.

By Bill Streeter, editor-in-chief, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it In her first speech to a banking group, Federal Reserve Board Governor Elizabeth Duke urged bankers to make reasonable accommodations to at-risk mortgage borrowers, and said that any changes should be sustainable.

Today's economic climate has caused an ever-growing number of borrowers to be in default and subject to the non-judicial foreclosure process.

Jose Santos Benavides, 42, lives with daughter Gloria, 6, and the rest of his family in a Rockville apartment.

Thousands of Tennesseans have been getting checks in the mail this week as part of the largest state and federal settlement of its kind ever.

I, for one, have been glued to the news about NSA surveillance , and personally think Glenn Greenwald has done Americans a massive service.

This is an increase of 2 percent on the month, but a decline of 28 percent on the year.

State of the Housing Union In the third part of this video series, Jonathon Weiner, vice president of research and development for Lender Processing Services' applied analytics division, explains where we are going in terms of housing value and what our expectations are for the next several years.

Restaurants and other businesses that were shut down about 24 hours by the city's water emergency began reopening to a hungry and grateful public Thursday.

Six former Bank of America Corp employees have alleged that the bank deliberately denied eligible home owners loan modifications and lied to them about the status of their mortgage payments and documents.