Foreclosure levels reach record high
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The number of Americans who may lose their homes because of late mortgage payments rose to a record in the first quarter, led by subprime borrowers pinched in an economy that grew at the slowest pace in four years.
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Homeowners increased their mortgage borrowing by almost $600 billion in the last quarter of 2006, an annual pace of 6.4 percent.
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The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, a trend that signals many homeowners are increasingly unable to make timely payments on their mortgages or sell their homes amid a national housing slump.
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Late payments on U.S. mortgages  increased in the fourth quarter to their highest level in three  and a half years and foreclosures rose, driven by subprime  borrowers with weak credit, the Mortgage Bankers Association  said on Tuesday.
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Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest home loan lender, reported yesterday that foreclosures and late payments on mortgages in December soared to their highest levels in five years.
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The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
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Business & money: Mortgage lending rose to record levels last month as borrowers reacted to further interest rate rises.
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Defaults on privately insured mortgages rose 34.7 percent in November to the highest level on record, reflecting the inability of a growing number of homeowners to keep current on their loan payments.
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The rate of home loans in foreclosure rose to a record level in the second quarter of 2007 as more homeowners in California, Florida and other states could not refinance their adjustable-rate mortgages.
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U.S. foreclosures last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, a trend that signals more homeowners are unable to pay their mortgages
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Applications for home mortgages jumped  to their highest level in nearly four years as low interest  rates led more homeowners to seek refinancing, according to  data from an industry group on Wednesday.
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Late payments on U.S. mortgages increased in the fourth quarter to their highest level in three and a half years and foreclosures rose, driven by subprime borrowers with weak credit, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Tuesday.
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Lenders launched foreclosure actions against more than one in every 200 U.S. mortgage borrowers in the fourth quarter of 2006, the biggest share of homes at the start of the repossession process on record.
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LOS ANGELES -- The number of foreclosure filings reported in the U.S. last month more than doubled versus August 2006 and jumped 36 percent from July, a trend that signals many homeowners are increasingly unable to make timely payments on their mortgages or sell their homes amid a national housing...
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Mortgage rates are nearing a five-year high, raising the cost of home ownership for buyers by hundreds or thousands of dollars a year at a time when real estate markets are struggling with tepid demand and a surplus of houses for sale.
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Sales of existing U.S. homes rose  unexpectedly to a record high in November and prices surged as  low mortgage rates fueled home-buying, a trade association  report showed on Wednesday.
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Whether you're a home seller, owner or buyer, by this point you've got to be feeling a little rattled. The bad news about the housing market seems never ending: Foreclosures have more than doubled over the past year.