New York

FHA mortgage denials are higher now than they were 20 years ago. Here's a look at the 12 housing markets with the largest combined denial rates for black, Asian and Hispanic applicants.

The New York State Department of Financial Services is warning that alternative home purchase finance agreements might be a cover for predatory mortgage lending practices by unlicensed entities.

After a strong kick-off to the 2018 housing market, only time will tell how rising interest rates will affect Staten Island, N.Y., residential real estate sales.

Here's some good news for New York City apartment hunters: Manhattan rents dropped 3.8% in March from a year earlier, the most since 2011.

The New York Department of Financial Services is fining Nationstar Mortgage $5 million for failing to comply with servicing and origination regulations as it grew between 2012 and 2014.

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns and the Western New York Law Center announced a partnership with Columbia Law School to help local municipalities with limited resources track and monitor zombie home foreclosures.

Home sales in Manhattan plunged by the most since the recession as buyers at all price levels drove hard bargains and were in no rush to close deals.

UBS agreed to pay $230 million to resolve a New York state probe into the Swiss bank's marketing and sales of residential mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis, boosting the state's recoveries in the investigation to almost $4 billion.

The homeownership rate in the Buffalo Niagara region dropped to its second-lowest level in 25 years in 2017, according to new data released by the Census Bureau.

The lender acquired Esperanza Mansion, the hotel, restaurant, and wedding venue overlooking Keuka Lake, N.Y., that closed its doors in 2016, after no bids were received at a foreclosure auction on March 7.