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The blighted property review committee wants to take a multipronged approach to addressing neglected properties in Hazelton, Pa.

Lower credit scores for mortgages refinanced in the first quarter are likely to lead to increased defaults of these loans, said Black Knight Financial Services.

Three Northern California men, including one of Oakland's largest landlords, were convicted of creating a massive bid-rigging scheme to scoop up hundreds of foreclosed properties at suppressed prices.

Defects and misrepresentations on mortgage applications rose for the fifth consecutive month in April, with increases for both purchase and refinance loans.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 2.

The former treasurer of an Oklahoma City homeowners association has been charged with eight felony counts of embezzlement.

Voters during a special town meeting approved a measure that would allow the town to bid up to $5 million on 87 acres of land across from the Village Fire Station on North Street in Kennebunkport, Maine, that is likely headed for foreclosure next week.

Wayne Francis, the lawyer and real estate speculator captured while hiding in a Connecticut hotel room over the holiday weekend, was presented in court Tuesday on a larceny charge and held on a $2 million bond.

Three former Nomura Holdings mortgage-bond traders accused of cheating their customers called no witnesses in their defense against fraud charges, betting that prosecutors’ evidence is too weak to convict them.

Auditors performing a review of Ocwen Financial padded time sheets and claimed excessive and improper expenses, including lengthy travel and meals at strip clubs and casinos, according to a lawsuit filed against Fidelity Information Services.