Lenders cut deals to avoid foreclosure crisis
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In a relatively short space of time, Sharon Jackson lost her mother, her sister, and her job and came within a whisker of losing her home of 20 years as well.
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Move follows government's failure to to find buyer for stricken mortgage lender
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In New York City neighborhoods hit hard by the subprime  lending crisis, most loans that ended up in foreclosure came from three companies, according to a new report.
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Citing a Massachusetts law that just went into effect, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Global Markets Realty Corp. could stop purchasing a category of mortgages refinanced by Massachusetts homeowners, a move that could make it harder to refinance a home loan.
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Investing in foreclosures can be lucrative, but be cautious.
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In a sign of continuing mortgage industry woes, PHH, one of the largest originators of residential home loans, said it is scrapping a planned $1.8 billion sale.
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Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
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Construction of new homes fell in May as the nationâs home builders were battered by the crisis in subprime lending and rising mortgage rates.
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While the credit squeeze is keeping private-equity firms from making big commercial real estate plays, it may soon create an opening for buyers less reliant on borrowed cash.
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The nationâs number 2 buyer and backer of home mortgages saw a 45 percent drop in second-quarter profits after setting aside $300 million to account for bad loans.
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Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc  on Thursday said it would stop wholesale mortgage lending amid a continued slump in credit and housing markets, a move that will impact 1,300 jobs and result in a $40 million charge.
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Dept.-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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A new plan by six major lenders to delay home foreclosures for some borrowers won't be any more effective than a government-brokered temporary rate freeze program rolled out several weeks ago, a top U.S. banking regulator said on Wednesday.
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Companies in sectors without obvious connections to housing are starting to feel the sting from subprime mortgages.
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Shares down after company shutters home lending operation.
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The crisis in the U.S. subprime  mortgage market has heightened tension between mortgage lenders  and brokers who both hope to shape any laws aimed at stamping  out dangerous loans.
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.