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JPMorgan Chase reported that it has provided more than half of the consumer relief required in just one year as part of a settlement with the government, according to a report released Tuesday. The internal review group for the New York-based megabank ...

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have both unanimously voted to pass a bill that give military servicemembers who have recently returned from duty added protection from foreclosure, according to an announcement from U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, who introduced ...

Washington, D.C.-based NeighborWorks America, one of the nation's largest community development corporations, announced that more than 1.8 million homeowners have received foreclosure prevention counseling through the association's National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program as of July 31, 2014. Distressed homeowners have utilized ...

The majority of mortgage industry professionals said they believed that the lowering of the down payment to 3 percent for first-time homebuyers by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was a step in the right direction for the housing market, according to the Collingwood ...

The number of residential foreclosure filings in the U.S. declined by 9 percent from October to November despite a yearly spike in the number of foreclosure starts, according to RealtyTrac's U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for November 2014 released Thursday. Residential foreclosure filings, which ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 4.8 million job openings in the U.S. as of the last day of October 2014, up slightly from the 4.7 million reported at the end of September, but overall things changed little month-over-month, according ...

Following months of talk and speculation, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced on Monday they will begin allowing qualifying first-time borrowers to purchase homes with just a 3 percent down payment. By lowering the down payment down to 3 percent, leaders from the ...

U.S. payrolls for November surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts, increasing at the highest rate in more than two years, according to a government estimate. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by a seasonally adjusted 321,000 in November, following an upwardly revised ...

Foreclosure completions declined significantly both month-over-month and year-over-year in October, but are still way above pre-recession levels, according to CoreLogic's October 2014 National Foreclosure Report released on Thursday. Foreclosure completions, which are an indicator of the number of homes lost to foreclosure, totaled ...

The level of optimism for the housing market in the U.S. for the fourth quarter of 2014 is at its highest level as it has been at any point during the recovery, according to a recent survey conducted by Trulia. The ...