Commercial banks eased standards for residential mortgage loans to meet a sharp increase in demand in the second quarter, the ""Federal Reserve"":http://www.federalreserve.gov/ reported Monday in its quarterly survey of bank...

...to be true. For the study, which was authored by Devin G. Pope and Jaren C. Pope, NBER assessed over one million housing transactions located near 159 Walmarts that opened...

While negative equity still continues to hinder the housing market's recovery, ""CoreLogic"":http://www.corelogic.com reported Thursday that the share of underwater mortgages declined. [IMAGE] In the first quarter of 2012, the total...

Once again, data compiled in the Obama administration's ""Housing Scorecard"":http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/initiatives/Housing_Scorecard pointed to both signs of promise and reasons for concern. The May scorecard was jointly released by the administration and...

...Head Island, South Carolina was number six on the list. In the first quarter of 2012, 159 foreclosure-related sales took place. The average sales price for foreclosure-related sales was $202,454,...

...survey, conducted over 1,004 phone interviews at the beginning of May, suggested that homebuyer interest in foreclosures has jumped 159 percent since October 2009, when foreclosures made up 29 percent...

Existing-home sales rose to 4.62 million (seasonally adjusted annualized rate) in April from a downwardly revised March rate of 4.47 million, the ""National Association of Realtors"":http://www.realtor.org/ (NAR) reported Tuesday. Economists...

According to a report from ""Foreclosure-Response.org"":http://www.foreclosure-response.org/, the serious delinquency rate, which includes loans 90 or more days past due plus foreclosures, increased for the first time after a downward trend...

Across the board, loan performance improved for February, and foreclosure starts were down compared to the month before in January, according to a report from ""LPS"":http://www.lpsvcs.com/Pages/default.aspx ""Applied Analytics"":http://www.lpsvcs.com/Divisions/AppliedAnalytics/Pages/default.aspx. Despite the...

*WHO* ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ and ""Fannie Mae"":http://www.fanniemae.com/portal/index.html [IMAGE] *WHAT and WHEN* Bank of America will no longer sell new loans to Fannie Mae due to disputes over repurchase claims. The...