Foreclosures

Stability is gradually returning to the housing market following the foreclosure crisis, according to Freddie Mac.

The Federal Housing Administration will make foreclosure protections available to a larger number of surviving spouses of deceased reverse mortgage borrowers.

New Jersey’s largest home-grown savings bank continued to shed loans and deposits in the fourth quarter as it continues to wait to be acquired by a commercial bank from upstate New York.

South Florida is inching closer to housing stability, according to a monthly report by Freddie Mac.

Payments to Philadelphia's city treasury and utilities, from mortgage foreclosures and delinquent tax, gas and water bills, surged to $58.3 million last year, a 40% jump from $34.4 million in 2013.

The government has added further protections to reverse mortgage borrowers' spouses who are not named in the loan agreement, but placed conditions under which they are ineligible for older protections.

More than 300,000 South Floridians who lost their homes during the housing bust could be eligible to own again over the next eight years.

Homeowners associations seeking unpaid dues are seizing on a court decision allowing them to foreclose on properties ahead of banks, and the FHFA is litigating to defend Fannie and Freddie mortgages. Private lenders, meanwhile, are trying to keep the problem from spreading to more states.

Almost 80% of the metro Milwaukee area's most-active real estate markets saw an increase in the average home price in 2014, and real estate analysts expect the trend to continue this year.

Mobile boards hung with candy-colored pages announcing the day's foreclosure hearings still stand sentry on the fourth floor of the Palm Beach County, Fla., courthouse — makeshift organizers erected during the unbridled early days of the housing crisis.

Thousands of struggling Michigan homeowners who got a break on their mortgage during the financial crisis will get a letter this year with a bit of bad news.

Although foreclosures had peaked in 2010 in many states and metropolitan areas, statistics show a different story for Maryland.

Recently disclosed emails and documents give the clearest evidence yet that high-level banking officials pushed subprime mortgage loans knowing some Detroiters couldn't pay them — helping spark a foreclosure crisis that devastated the city during the Great Recession.

Freddie Mac is selling $410 million of deeply delinquent U.S. home loans in its second sale of the debt.

The national mortgage delinquency rate dropped in December after a significant uptick the previous month, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Rising home prices have helped the nation’s homeowners by increasing equity and lifting more of them out of “underwater” mortgage situations.

More South Florida homeowners became "equity rich" by the end of 2014, giving them options they haven't enjoyed since the housing boom.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions promoted John Vella to the new position of chief revenue officer in a bid to grow beyond its relationship with embattled former parent Ocwen Financial.

MGIC on Tuesday reported an increase in its quarterly earnings, as the company slashed its losses and boosted net premiums.

Michigan homeowners facing a loss of their houses to foreclosure will find it easier to solve their financial problems as a result of a package of bills signed by Gov. Rick Snyder.