Mortgage News

By the end of March, the two mortgage-finance companies that were seized by the U.S. in 2008 will have returned $202.9 billion in dividend payments, after receiving $187.5 billion in federal support between 2008 and 2011.

Abandoned homes riddle the country road where Jocelyn Shockley and her family live just of west of Zanesville.

Five years after the federal government bailed out more than 1 million struggling homeowners, many who got the relief may end up losing their homes after all.

A Henderson man has been sentenced to more than 4 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $800,000 in restitution in a mortgage fraud scheme.

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the pace of housing starts picked up last month, ending a string of modest declines that began in November, but it appears the longer-term trend remains flat.

Servicing becomes more of a shadow industry : The government, unimpressed by banks' previous handling of troubled mortgage loans, has been pushing banks out of the mortgage-servicing industry.

Housing starts in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area were trending at 35,934 units in February compared to 36,313 in January according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation .

A service member who has been in the U.S. Army for more than 21 years, he had just arrived in Vigo County with his family - wife, four teenage children, mother-in-law and two dogs - when he learned the home loan he had obtained in Texas was denied.

Five years ago, the United States was in the midst of its worst recession in seven decades, and stocks were feeling it.

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The only sure way for the Swiss National Bank to cool the booming Swiss mortgage market is by raising interest rates, the chief of Raiffeisen Switzerland said on Saturday, adding that greater self-regulation by banks would have little effect.

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Gov. Dannel Malloy says he has signed an executive order creating a program that will use $10.8 million federal funding to bring down energy costs for Connecticut residents living in multifamily homes.

Everyone agrees that the winter just now winding down has been brutal for most Americans.

By Beth Dalbey Pontiac, Michigan - How did the death of a woman go unnoticed for five years? The answer appears in part to be that modern technology allowed the woman's life to continue on autopilot - even after she died.

Nick and Dawn LaPolla and their children, Alex, 6, left and Cameron, 10, of Fair Oaks, Calif., talk about the impact of the new health care law on their family.

With its plan to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages still in limbo, the city is mulling the possibility of green lighting another program aimed at its troubled housing market.

The Post Office has been heavily criticised this week after it was revealed it will not offer mortgages for properties in the islands - except Skye as it is an island joined to the mainland by road.

Brutal winter weather snarled traffic, cancelled flights and cut power to homes and factories in February.