Mortgages Blog

Companies can’t force parents to give up maternity leave in order to obtain a mortgage loan. Obvious no? Not to this company.

The jobs report for April was disappointing, at best. The silver lining: it will help keep mortgage rates at or near record lows this week.

The increased number of young adults moving in with Mom and Dad is hampering a housing recovery.

Fannie Mae could have saved taxpayers “significant amounts of money” if it had implemented a loan forgiveness program in 2010, according to internal documents obtained by democratic lawmakers.

Despite low mortgage rates and home prices, the first quarter of this year saw the rate of homeownership fall …

Is it getting easier to get a mortgage? Are banks offering underwater borrowers a chance to refinance? The Federal Reserve asked banks across the country to answer some of these questions. Here is what they said.

Landlords are asking for higher rents, and why not? Fewer rentals are vacant.

Complaints from homeowners who believe they have been victims of illegal foreclosure practices are widespread. Yet, when millions of borrowers were offered an opportunity to have their foreclosure files reviewed so they could get compensated for the wrongdoing, few accepted the opportunity. Puzzling, no? As a result of the robosigning scandal, regulators last year required

Real estate kingpin Donald Trump is feeling the pain of the downturn in the global housing market. Buyers in one of his latest luxury condo/hotel buildings in Toronto began having second thoughts even before the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Condos in the 65-story Trump International Hotel and Tower start at $2.3 million and hotel condos start at

The 2009 first-time homebuyer tax credit didn’t help homebuyers.