The news is now filled with SEC accusations that Goldman Sachs defrauded investors who bought mortgage-backed securities, allegations Goldman Sachs st...

If you've been getting strange calls from your mortgage lender demanding payment, don't be so quick to reach for your checkbook -- such calls could be...

Armando Falcon was the chief regulator attempting to bring order to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the early 2000s, and had he been listened to, a significant part of the housing crisis could have been mitigated.

Oddly, however, there is one sector that has been outrunning the reaper since 2007, and it's the last place you'd expect to have survived so long: com...

JPMorgan Chase told a California couple to quit making mortgage payments in order to qualify for a loan modification but then foreclosed on their Sacr...

A growing number of the people whose homes are in foreclosure are refusing to slink away in shame. They are fashioning a sort of homemade mortgage mod...

Friday's announcement that the administration is overhauling its mortgage modification program to encourage principal forgiveness shows they understan...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bank of America Corp. is giving some of its most troubled mortgage borrowers relief from the threat of foreclosure. The bank,...

Of all the companies bailed out by the federal government, mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are shaping up as the deepest money pits...

Europe without Greece is like Main Street without Wall Street. Difficult to fathom, even if Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been naughty. For now, Greece can...

Time was when Americans would do almost anything to hang on to their homes. But that commitment appears to be fraying as more people fall behind on th...

Wells Fargo made a bundle selling risky, high-cost subprime loans to African Americans, including long-time African American homeowners.

More than one in 10 mortgage holders in Elkhart is seriously behind on payments. The median sales price has plunged to the level of a decade ago. Many...

Tens of thousands of American families may remember Christmas of 2009 as the last time they'll spend a holiday in a home they own. Yet 2010 might not look much prettier.

FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn't a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took ...

John Courson, president and C.E.O. of the Mortgage Bankers Association, recently told The Wall Street Journal that homeowners who default on their mor...

Credit is sort of like a healthy body. You've got to use it to have it and you've got to use it well and on an on-going basis to have it be stellar.