The housing market may be recovering, but the country is still suffering. Americans lost $192.6 billion in wealth, or an average of $1,700 per hou...

(Reuters) - Michael Marchillo, a plumber, has been trying and failing for months to buy a bigger home for his family here in Sin City. He was pre-qual...

WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The share of privately owned U.S. homes in the first quarter dipped to its lowest since 1995, government data showe...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Federal and state prosecutors intend to bring civil charges against Standard & Poor's for wrongdoing in its rating of mortgage bonds...

(Repeats to additional subscribers) * Household formation lifting off recession troughs * Improving jobs picture behind ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. builders started construction last month on the most homes and apartments since July 2008, more evidence that the housing reco...

There never was any real housing "boom" and no increase in actual housing "wealth" -- merely a credit boom courtesy of the Magical Mystical Wall Street Securitization Machine -- a deliberate ploy to disguise the fact that people were earning less and could afford to spend less.

For Marliza Melzer, the housing bust has meant the end of two American dreams. "My mortgage is underwater so I can’t pay for my son to go to col...

LOS ANGELES -- National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered...

It is up to those of us with knowledge of the markets, and those of us in positions to change them, to transform these ideas from words into action. We should not delay.

(Adds comments) By Jim Christie SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Stockton, California's city council approved a plan l...

* Record number of defaults in Beverly Hills * Many wealthy owners could still pay but walked away * Only 12 of 180 dist...

The United States is divided into 41,861 distinct zip codes. And the difference in housing prices pushes them even further apart. The truly drasti...

By Michelle Conlin Jan 25 (Reuters) - In July 2009, Roy and Sheila Bowers refinanced the mortgage on their suburban ranch home in Tope...

A law firm that led mortgage bondholders to extract a $8.5 billion settlement from Bank of America Corp is turning its sights on JPMorgan Chase & ...

WASHINGTON -- This should be a great time to buy a first home. Prices have sunk to 2002 levels. Sellers are waiting anxiously as homes languish on the...

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Americans are staying put more than at any time since World War II, as the housing bust and unemployme...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Housing Finance Agency failed to adequately oversee settlements between mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and ...

Regulators are close to an agreement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to settle a case over disclosing their exposure to risky subprime loans, The ...

The housing boom and bust brought forth many accounts of mortgage fraud — but it's only recently that the absurdity of some schemes is coming to lig...

The Case-Shiller home price index is a powerful way to look at the story of housing in America. You can see the boom and bust all in one simple graph....

Adjustable rate mortgages are back! After accounting for nearly 70% of all mortgages issued during the boom, ARMs vanished during the bust, totalin...

WASHINGTON — Keeping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in business will cost taxpayers billions. But getting the federal government out of the mortgage...