The number of foreclosure filings in the nation has increased month-over-month but declined year-over-year, according to RealtyTrac's monthly U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for August 2014 released Thursday. The report showed that one in every 1,126 houses in the nation had a ...

Home asking prices are on the rise nationwide, according to the August 2014 Trulia Price Monitor released on Tuesday, but they are rising at a faster rate in judicial states where the foreclosure process takes longer. This is a reversal from the ...

Improvements in the labor market in 2014 have not translated to rapid housing market recovery this year, according to the Fannie Mae August 2014 National Housing Survey. Instead, data in the survey indicated that recovery for the housing market will be slow ...

The Congressional Budget Office released a cost estimate on Friday for a senate bill introduced in June 2013 that would eliminate GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and replace them with a private insurance company system with a government backstop. ...

ADP Research Institute reported the addition of 204,000 nonfarm private sector jobs for the month of August on seasonally-adjusted basis in its August National Employment Report, released Thursday. While this number is down from 212,000 private sector jobs added in July ...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced on Tuesday that it has published final guidelines for large financial institutions regarding the strengthening of governance and risk management practices for those institutions. Organizations covered by the guidelines are insured ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced in a report released last week it has sold $15.8 billion dollars in nonperforming loans since 2010, cutting losses to its insurance fund and saving thousands of homeowners from foreclosure. Since the ...

In accordance with the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Friday that it has proposed a rule to establish new housing goals for 2015 through 2017 for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. For ...

Fewer charge-offs for mortgages have resulted in the smallest losses for banks on loans since before the recession, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Quarterly Banking Report for the second quarter of 2014 released on Thursday. For the second quarter, FDIC-insured ...

Foreclosure activity was down all over the nation in July, particularly in the area of foreclosure inventory – homes that are in any stage of the foreclosure process – where there was a 34.4 percent drop from July 2013, according ...