Foreclosure News

Wells Fargo is being accused of developing a 150-page manual for generating bogus mortgage documents to justify home foreclosures, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York last week.

Despite other indicators that the local economy is improving, foreclosure filings and sheriff's sales remain high in York County.

Adjustable-rate mortgages, one of the main culprits of the housing crisis, are back in vogue.

The price of their Fillmore, Calif., home rose enough in the past few months for Owen and Wana Klasen to get an equity line of credit to fund upgrades.

Properties sold at the Boulder County Public Trustee foreclosure auctions for March 12, 2014.

More than 112 victims of a foreclosure rescue scam in Michigan will be helped after the state prosecuted a company for making misleading or false statements to homeowners, Attorney General Bill Schuette has announced.

Wilson and Associates PLLC, secretary-treasurer, to American Homes 4 Rent Properties Seven LLC, in Mount Pleasant subdivision, $133,501.

This was down 27% from a year ago and was the lowest monthly total since December 2006.

Already, nearly 30 percent of those who qualified for relief have defaulted again.

Foreclosure defense lawyers use the term `ta-da' endorsement to describe situations in which they say a document appears, as if by magic, in the bank's possession as needed in a foreclosure case--even though the proper endorsement was not included in the original foreclosure filing.

A woman died in the garage of a home in a lively Pontiac neighborhood and went undetected so long that her body decomposed and, police said, 'mummified.'

With the fervor of a veteran revival preacher, Abdul'Haq Muhammed promised to fight for the future of Dunbar's Quality Life Center.

March is here, and you might think that the recovering housing market will soar this spring, as a brighter economy and still-attractive mortgage rates converge to lift the sector to new heights.

An affiliate of home building giant Lennar Corp. wants to seize 76.2 acres of farmland in Homestead through foreclosure.

Rich Burleson, with Mid-America Elevator Co., works on elevator controls at the new Greenwood City Center, 300 S. Madison Ave., Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

Curtis Olson stands in front of a string of condemned houses on East Brookeside Street on March 12, 2014.

Several community assistance organizations are suing California, alleging the state improperly diverted nearly $370 million that was intended to help homeowners struggling with foreclosures.

Three community assistance organizations sued Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials on Friday, alleging the state improperly diverted nearly $370 million that was intended to help homeowners struggling with foreclosures.

Last week, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal dealt the final blow to an often-used strategy by condominium associations.

But to make it work, the city needs the support of the financial community, which it alienated with the misguided plan to save some homeowners from foreclosure by seizing mortgages from lenders through eminent domain.