Massachusetts

The Massachusetts bank — and former credit union — bought Cumberland County Mortgage in Maine.

Here's a look at the 10 housing markets where the most homebuyers have prime credit scores.

Ocwen Financial is receiving a lump-sum payment of $280 million from New Residential under the latest restructuring of the mortgage servicing rights sale.

From San Francisco to Dallas, here's a look at the 10 top housing markets where homes sell above the asking price.

Employees at HarborOne Bank and its Merrimack Mortgage Co. subsidiary will see their minimum wage rise to $15 per hour, the latest company to accelerate plans to hike salaries.

Home sales across the state surged last month, reaching the highest number of transactions recorded for November on record, according to a new report from The Warren Group.

Two affordable housing developers received millions in subsidies and tax credits from Massachusetts to add 135 units of affordable housing in Eastham and Yarmouth.

The company said it will lay off more than a dozen employees in a move that reflects the current volume of mortgage loan originations.

Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin has charged a Milton, Mass., man with using a fraudulent house-flipping scheme to convince friends and investors to lend him money that he then used on restaurants, hotels and groceries.

Regulatory changes that would put an end to state and local tax deductions could prompt many homeowners in high-tax states to consider relocating, a Redfin survey shows.

The Worcester City Council has asked the city administration to identify affordable housing that might exist for people resettling here from hurricane-battered Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The president and founder of a now-defunct East Falmouth, Mass., mortgage company pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded the federal government out of about $2.5 million.

Here's a look at the 12 cities where homeowners who bought low during the housing crisis profited the most when they sold in 2016.

As distressed inventory dries up and home prices soar, more investors are borrowing to buy flip houses. Here's a look at the 12 states with the largest share of financing for flipping houses.

Rising prices are starting to keep potential purchasers from looking for homes and making an offer although interest remains near record levels, according to the Redfin Housing Demand Index.

Foreclosure actions on Cape Cod are showing their first decrease in four years, aided by a red-hot housing market that's making it easier for distressed homeowners to offload their property before losing it to the bank.

Getting rundown or blighted properties renovated to meet safety codes and restored to the tax rolls is the goal of a program known as receivership, a report about which was presented to the Holyoke, Mass., City Council.

Saying he was fed up co-existing with town officials, the owner of a 1750s-era house on Main Street in Rowley, Mass., has put the home and the 6.8 acres it sits on up for sale and is encouraging developers to build affordable housing there.

A Methuen, Mass., woman was forced to sell her home recently after she fell victim to an apparent scam targeting homeowners who are struggling with their mortgages.

Dozens stood out in the rain Thursday morning to protest the foreclosure eviction of an elderly man and his son from their Sixteen Acres home in Springfield, Mass.