Foreclosures

Foreclosure inventory and the number of completed foreclosures both dropped in May compared with a year ago, according to CoreLogic.

Just 2.8 million borrowers remain in negative equity, a 13% decrease year-over-year, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Ocwen Financial Corp. has converted more than 4,100 trial plans into permanent modifications through the Treasury Department's streamlined modification program.

Quontic Bank, a Community Development Financial Institution in New York, is offering a product reminiscent of crisis-era no-doc and low-doc loans. But does this "Lite Doc" loan carry the same risk?

Millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosures or short sales during the housing crisis. Fortunately for the economy, time heals most wounds — and credit reports.

The Dec. 31 expiration of the Home Affordable Modification Program will have a limited negative effect on residential mortgage-backed securities from 2008 or earlier, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently dressed down the mortgage industry for failing to innovate. Here are 10 tech ideas from the National Mortgage News team that could improve efficiency, margins and the industry's image among growing demographics. Some might sound farfetched, but so do most great inventions at first. Dream big.

The U.S. mortgage market is of course considerably smaller, safer and less accessible than it was nine years ago.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s first report on the sales of nonperforming loans owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may seem discouraging at first.

Nonperforming loan investors will have to consider principal reductions and offer more sustainable loan modifications.