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A new estimator of existing-home sales landed recently, and it's calling for a slight pickup in transactions for October. With help from Internet giant Google, Auction.com announced the launch of Nowcast, a new housing report designed to combine industry data, proprietary company transaction data, ...

Ocwen Financial, the nation's top non-bank mortgage servicer, announced Thursday that the company has taken a $100 million dollar charge for a potential settlement regarding claims that Ocwen sent backdated foreclosure letters to thousands of borrowers. New York's Financial Services Superintendent, Benjamin ...

The number of zombie foreclosures in the U.S. declined both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year in the third quarter of 2014, according

Short sales and sales of distressed properties, which are those that are in foreclosure or bank-owned, accounted for 12.7 percent of all residential home sales in the U.S. in the third quarter, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 Residential Sales Report released Tuesday. The ...

A recent study conducted by Trulia shows that while Democratic- and Republican-leaning U.S. markets were affected similarly by the housing crisis, the most pressing current issues of the housing industry seem to be more severely affecting Democratic-leaning metros. Trulia found not only ...

In September, foreclosure inventory in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in more than six years while delinquencies also significantly declined, according to Black Knight Financial Services' First Look at September Mortgage Data released on Friday. The percentage of current ...

The residential mortgage loan risk retention rule, known as the qualified residential mortgage rule, was approved on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the last two of six federal agencies to approve the rule, according to ...

The number of U.S. homeowners who were seriously underwater in the third quarter declined 11 percent from the previous quarter,

The number of U.S. homeowners who were seriously underwater in the third quarter declined 11 percent from the previous quarter, falling to the lowest level in more than two years, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 Home Equity & Underwater Report released today. RealtyTrac ...

Federal regulators announced on Tuesday they have finalized a rule establishing a risk retention framework for mortgage lenders securitizing and selling loans. The so-called qualified residential mortgage rule, which was put up for consideration by FDIC's board of directors Tuesday ...