Foreclosure notices surge to a record
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The state's looming foreclosure crisis escalated last month as the number of homeowners threatened with foreclosure more than doubled from a year earlier.
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Hundreds of lawsuits are being filed on behalf of borrowers who legal advocates say were shoehorned into homes beyond their means with creative and onerous mortgages.
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The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
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A record number of homeowners with high-cost mortgages have fallen behind on their payments or are facing foreclosure, a side effect of the growth in lending to people with poor credit, according to an industry group survey released yesterday.
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The number of home repossessions in the UK rises to its highest since 1999, mortgage lenders say.
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U.S. mortgage applications rose last week, fueled by increased demand for home purchase loans even as interest rates hit their highest level in nearly a year, an industry group's data showed on Wednesday.
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U.S. homeowners began the foreclosure process at a record pace in the first quarter of 2007, largely due to a sharp rise in previously hot real estate markets such as California and Florida.
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High numbers of residents in foreclosure in these 50 counties owe more than what their homes are worth.
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Mortgage lenders launched more  than 70,000 foreclosure proceedings in California in the third  quarter, marking a record for the state, where many housing  markets are slumping amid mortgage market turmoil, according to  a report released on Friday.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Wednesday that foreclosures and late payments rose in December to the highest on record, though it made more loans than expected in the fourth quarter.
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Foreclosure filings rose 36 percent in August from July and 115 percent from a year ago, hit by declines in once-hot housing markets such as California, Nevada and Florida, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Mortgage applications rose last week to the highest level in four months, according to a private survey. The survey, the Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s gauge of loan applications, increased 7.7 percent to
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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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Housing starts have been very high relative to the number of homes that builders are trying to sell.
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The delinquency rate for mortgage borrowers spiked higher in the second quarter and the number of homes entering the foreclosure process hit a record high, according to a report released Thursday.
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Applications for home mortgages jumped for a third consecutive week as plunging interest rates encouraged more homeowners to seek refinancings, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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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.