Congress created the VA loan program in 1944 as part of the massive GI Bill. The government basically insures a portion of each loan, and that security help spur the country's post-war housing boom. Today, VA loans are more popular than ever.

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

WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - A federal watchdog faulted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance companies propped up with taxpayer fund...

The national foreclosure crisis might be headed in the right direction, but it's still got a ways to go. The percentage of loans in foreclosure fe...

NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Applications for U.S. home mortgages jumped last week, fueled by increased demand for refinancing as interest rates fell...

Applications for U.S. home mortgages surged last week, driven by increased refinancing demand as interest rates dropped, an industry group said on...

WASHINGTON — Mortgage applications to purchase a home fell last week to a 15-year low, despite the lowest mortgage rates in decades. Many poten...

A senior couple in Pasco County, Florida is facing the prospect of foreclosure. But the reason doesn't have to do with missed mortgage payments. This ...

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans at risk of foreclosure is rising, reflecting the U.S. economy's continued struggles. The Mortgage Bankers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fixed mortgage rates fell to at or near record lows. That's good news for the few who can afford to buy a home or are able to refin...

Applications for U.S. home mortgages slipped last week after a sharp jump the week before and as interest rates edged up, an industry group said o...

Applications for home mortgages surged last week, racking up the biggest increase in four months on a flood of refinancing demand as interest rate...

NEW YORK (Leah Schnurr) - Applications for home mortgages slipped last week as demand waned, even as mortgage rates dropped, an industry group sai...

Applications for home mortgages saw their biggest jump in three months last week, fueled by demand for refinancing as interest rates continued to ...

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

The following is produced in partnership with The Dylan Ratigan Show's weeklong "No Way To Live" series on the financial crisis and its impact on ordi...

"I know it's become part of the narrative that people knew what was going to happen at any minute. We never knew what was happening at any minute." That's Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Now he tells us.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mortgage applications tumbled to their lowest level in nearly a year as a six-week-long rise in interest rates took a significant...

Washington, D. C. is hot, but the rest of the nation is not when comparing our unemployment rates to the nation's capitol. "The largest over-the-month...

Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking, there's still a popular point of view that says fraudulent foreclosures are "a technicality" and what we're seeing is neither a systemic problem nor a crime wave of epidemic proportions. Actually, it's both.

At the center of the foreclosure fraud crisis lies something called "MERS," which is usually described in news reports as a computer system and database. But if you do some digging, you find it's much more than that.

Near term, economists tell us that less homebuyers and more apartment renters are in our future. Yet, the Mortgage Bankers Association reports that ...

The mega-bankers who derailed the economy have a new PR campaign to sell you. They're saying that families who can't pay their mortgages must bear the blame -- all the blame -- for the foreclosure crisis.