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She said the plan was just one piece of a larger and more complex framework to address the city’s housing problem.

The shift to a purchase market and an increase in wholesale mortgage originations contributed to a nearly 17% year-over-year rise in fraud risk during the second quarter, according to CoreLogic.

Three executives from Vanguard Funding are facing fraud charges related to their alleged misuse of nearly $9 million in warehouse lending funds.

Zombie properties become the living dead as a result of bank foreclosures. They sit and often fall into disrepair — a situation likely to go from bad to worse.

Zucker previously oversaw debt issuance at the New York State Homes and Community Renewal’s Office of Finance and Development.

The mayor of Niagara Falls, N.Y. is asking local lawmakers to authorize the city's participation in a multi-jurisdictional land bank initiative, a non-profit organization officials say will be a tool to beat back urban blight.

The New York State Department of Financial Services hasn't issued a single penalty against a bank or mortgage provider for failure to maintain and secure a property more than a year after the law requiring this upkeep was signed and eight months after it went into effect.

Reporting requirements for title insurers and agents have been expanded to cover more types of high-end real estate transactions, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said.

A new state law meant to combat the blight of "zombie" homes across New York lacks effective enforcement to hold banks accountable for actually maintaining the properties on Staten Island.

Recent data from an analytic company shows that Staten Island, N.Y., home values have increased dramatically over a 35-year period while income rates have not seen the same hike.

Blighted, abandoned properties in Hornell, N.Y., are not only in-check, according to officials, but they're declining at a rapid pace.

The winning bids at Saturday's annual Niagara County tax foreclosure auction totaled more than $1 million.

Home prices rose to all-time high levels in each of the last two months in the Buffalo Niagara, N.Y., region.

Affordability concerns influenced a consumer's decision to search for a home in a different city, a Redfin study found.

The New York City Council voted to rezone about 78 blocks of east Midtown Manhattan, enabling an aging building stock to be replaced by newer, larger and taller office towers.

The New York company, which is preparing to buy Astoria Financial, reported year-over-year increases in commercial-and-industrial and commercial real estate loans.

Mayor Byron W. Brown is overhauling the board that oversees Buffalo's public housing for 10,000 residents, an initial step toward tackling ongoing problems at the agency.

Finding a place to live in Brooklyn is easy if you want to rent a home — not so much if you want to buy one.

Realogy's Title Resource Group is acquiring the assets of EAM Land Services as part of a strategy to strengthen its presence in commercial title services.

Guarantors may be the most glaring omission in the glitzy city lifestyle captured by popular sitcoms.