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The city of Las Vegas is strengthening its effort to identify homes at risk of becoming blighted or taken over by squatters.

The Trump administration's Justice Department was expected to be less aggressive in its pursuit of False Claims Act cases against the mortgage industry. Instead, its focus has shifted to Federal Housing Administration-insured reverse mortgages.

Morgan Stanley received credit for $30 million of consumer relief, completing 85% of the obligations required by its February 2016 settlement with New York State.

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Wells Fargo & Co. surprised investors this week by withholding more than $90 million due to buyers of pre-crisis residential mortgage-backed securities.

A new, affordable, two-family home will be built in Central Falls, R.I., replacing a blighted six-unit multifamily property that has been demolished.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 30.

The Pine Tree Plaza in Sterling, Ill., will be auctioned online after a string of tenant departures put the property in foreclosure.

The proposed site in Danvers, Mass., of a Registry of Motor Vehicles office is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction, casting doubt on when, or if, the registry will actually end up there.

The owner of a $50.9 million Manhattan condo that is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction next month is Kolawole "Kola" Aluko, a Nigerian businessman accused in court filings of defrauding that country's government.