Wed, 31 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7148582/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/Business/Economy/Mortgage_rate_081231.thumb.gif" alt="" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to a record low for the third straight week and borrowers took advantage of the drop, sending new applications soaring.</p><br clear="all" />
Wed, 31 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28448806/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Interactives/Business/Economy/Mortgage_rate_081231.thumb.gif" alt="" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Mortgage applications were at their highest level in more than five years last week, as borrowers took advantage of attractive rates and rushed to refinance their home loans.</p><br clear="all" />
Tue, 30 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28433704/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/2d100132-0be9-444b-9fc8-1b162cd43230.thumb.jpg" alt="The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city housing index fell by a record 18 percent from October last year, the largest drop since its inception in 2000." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city housing index released Tuesday fell by a record 18 percent from October last year, the largest drop since its inception in 2000.</p><br clear="all" />
Sun, 28 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28393619/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081226-low-energy-homes-hmed-5p.thumb.jpg" alt="The ultramodern town homes at "Galleries at Turney" in Phoenix, Ariz., are selling while similar projects have struggled to find buyers." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Homebuilders slapped on solar panels and added other eco-friendly enhancements as energy prices soared earlier this year, hoping greener homes would lure reluctant buyers.</p><br clear="all" />
Sun, 28 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28391726/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/5e91d5d2-9249-42e5-8e59-3f9d80165924.thumb.jpg" alt="This undated image provided by F+A Architects shows an overview of the "Napa Valley" housing development in Beijing, China. " style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Architect Andy Feola keeps running into Southern California colleagues in some of the world's most exotic locations — from the Egyptian desert to China to Azerbaijan.</p><br clear="all" />
Fri, 26 Dec 20 ...MORE
You're paying your bills, but your landlord isn't. This is becoming an all too familiar scenario for thousands of renters who have become the unintended victims of foreclosures.
Wed, 24 Dec 20 ...MORE
Mortgage applications spiked to highest level in five years, as borrowers took advantage of dropping rates after the government pledged to funnel money into the mortgage market.
Tue, 23 Dec 20 ...MORE
Despite aggressive government efforts to lower mortgages rates, other forces appear to be prolonging one of the nation’s deepest housing downturns on record.
Tue, 23 Dec 20 ...MORE
Sales of new and existing homes plummeted in November, as buyers stayed out of the market amid the growing financial crisis and deepening recession.
Mon, 22 Dec 20 ...MORE
The rate of home mortgage borrowers defaulting after their loans are modified is rising and shows no signs of leveling off, U.S. banking regulators said on Monday.
Mon, 22 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28356535/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/58df0063-2249-4dba-815e-46f860bd13e2.thumb.jpg" alt="The Feterowskis — Gottwald, Michael, Christopher and Christine —of East Bridgewater, Mass., got a phone call from ING Direct saying their January mortgage payment of just over $1,500 was being paid for by the bank." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>One bank is playing Santa for 500 lucky homeowners in this season of foreclosures and sinking home values — a gesture paid in part by employees forgoing their office party.</p><br clear="all" />
Fri, 19 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28277420/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081216-stuckey-lawyer-vlg1p.thumb.jpg" alt=""She's an angel," says one client of Jacksonville, Fla., foreclosure defense attorney April Charney. " style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Amid the mortgage meltdown, Jacksonville, Fla., legal aid attorney April Charney has become a top expert in foreclosure defense. Mostly, she says, lenders have hung themselves.</p><br clear="all" />
Thu, 18 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28300438/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/c5ebea4a-d89a-4639-9543-f49b11443573.thumb.jpg" alt="Diane Shackle walked away from mortgage on her condo in Calimesa, Calif. "It ripped me up to do it..."" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Walking away from a mortgage has always been a homeowner's last resort, but more may choose to do it as home prices continue to fall.</p><br clear="all" />
Thu, 18 Dec 20 ...MORE
<p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28265498/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/081218-foreclosure-hmed.thumb.jpg" alt="Darrell West comforts his girlfriend, Vickie Lewis, one of millions of Americans currently living in the legal limbo of foreclosure proceedings." style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Vickie Lewis of Jacksonville, Fla., has been living in foreclosure limbo for more than four years. But she does not fit any stereotypes of today's troubled borrowers. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.</p><br clear="all" />
Thu, 18 Dec 20 ...MORE
Homeowners across the United States on Wednesday took advantage of the Federal Reserve's extraordinary decision to lower interest rates, refinancing their homes.