Mortgage Lending Crisis
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Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein will be online to discuss mortgage lending crisis and credit standards.
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Homeowners unable to pay monthly mortgage bills and facing foreclosure shouldn't count on help from Washington this year. Regulators and lawmakers seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach as they confront the fallout from several years of lenders making too many home loans to people with inadequate credit.
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The bigger-than-expected decline in existing home sales came amid continuing turmoil in mortgage markets.
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THOUSANDS OF homeowners with poor credit are facing foreclosure because they can no longer afford to pay their high-interest loans. In the crack-up of the so-called subprime mortgage industry, these borrowers are the most visible participants. But they aren't the only ones who seemed not to understand what they were getting themselves into.
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Banks were reeling from a credit crunch. Mortgage firms were collapsing. A steep recession was looming. So the U.S. government set up a corporation to buy troubled home loans and distressed properties, stabilizing the financial system.
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The nation's housing industry is in a free fall from the subprime mortgage crisis. The budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development could be facing big cuts. And the agency is still struggling to respond to a slew of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW YORK -- Throughout 2006, T. Rowe Price analyst Susan Troll watched in horror as one risky mortgage deal after another hit the market. She became alarmed by a widening trend: mortgage lenders issuing home loans of poor quality that were then packaged and sold by Wall Street investment banks to...
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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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The government may be arriving far too late to prevent damage to borrowers from subprime mortgages, and just in time for its intervention to make things worse.
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Some UK mortgage rates are rising as a direct consequence of the recent turmoil in world financial markets.
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The turmoil tearing through the residential mortgage market will probably harm everyday investors.
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As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
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Mortgage lending has fallen for two successive months for the first time in four years, reinforcing observations of a weakening property market.
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UK mortgage lending dropped in September and shares of house builders slid on mounting evidence that Britain&#39;s five-year property boom is coming to an end as interest rates rise.
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THE HUMAN SIDE of the subprime crisis is that more than 2 million homeowners are at risk of losing their homes. If immediate action is not taken, the repercussions of allowing this meltdown is likely to affect virtually every community, drive the economy into recession, and affect economies overseas. The most effective and just remedy is for the lenders and ...
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The US housing and mortgage downturn is now so acute that a fall in home prices is likely, a key lender warns.
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Britain's fifth largest mortgage lender recieved emergency funding from the Bank of England in an attempt to head of a liquidity crisis.