PHILADELPHIA — Protests are planned in more than a dozen cities across the country to demand that a group of mortgage companies who benefited from federal bailout money participate in a government program designed to prevent foreclosures. The …
NEW YORK – Chase said Tuesday it has approved 138,000 trial mortgage modifications for struggling homeowners in the past three months. The company started processing the modifications April 6, as part of President Obama’s Making Home Affordable …
Valley loan brokers, home builders and real-estate agents said they’re hoping Congress will approve a proposed 18-month reprieve from new rules intended to stop appraisal-rigging on home purchases financed with conventional mortgage loans. A bill …
Court records show that former Bulls star Eddy Curry ’s Burr Ridge mansion is in foreclosure. Documents show that as of Friday, Curry was more than $217,000 behind on his $3.7 million mortgage. Records show Curry and his wife, Patrice, took the 30 …
PASADENA – Facing a protest from housing advocates, Pasadena-based OneWest Bank cq announced Tuesday it would take an advantage of a federal program and offer modified mortgages to some loan holders. Members of the Association of Community …
HOUSES for new buyers are the most affordable they have been since 1996, a new survey indicates. It now takes 14pc of a first-time buyer couple’s income to service a mortgage compared with 26pc at the height of the boom, figures from DKM Economic …
The Treasury Department said Tuesday that it has approved three more firms for its mortgage relief program. The new approvals brought the number of companies participating in the mortgage effort to 23 with the total amount authorized for all of the …
The Obama administration sent Congress legislation Tuesday to create a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency designed to protect Americans from unscrupulous practices and make financial products easier to understand. The 152-page draft bill would …
NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage-backed securities issuance plunged in the first six months of 2009, compared with the same period a year ago as uncertainty held sway over the housing market and investors shied away from risky instruments …
Leading Christchurch Mortgage broker Niki Olds has moved to new mortgage broking company Viva Home Loans. Olds, previously with Mortgage Express, starts with Viva Home Loans on Wednesday 1 July, and says the opportunity to work somewhere where she …
