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Across the country, banks and other lenders are still being stingy in providing credit to ordinary consumers. Only the most financially stable of Americans can secure mortgages. Small businesses are having trouble getting loans. Credit card access is restricted.

Lenders initiated foreclosure proceedings against more U.S. homeowners in May, setting the stage for increases in home repossessions and short sales - scenarios that could further weigh down home values in coming months....

California's attorney general said on Thursday her state will receive up to $18 billion in benefits under a federal-state mortgage settlement to be announced later today.

The nation’s biggest banks and mortgage lenders have amassed a glut of foreclosed homes that threatens to deepen the housing slump.

The banking industry, racked by the financial crisis and facing slower revenue growth, is starting to cut costs—increasingly at the expense of jobs.

Officials in 49 states have launched a joint investigation into allegations that mortgage companies mishandled documents and broke laws in foreclosing on hundreds of thousands of homeowners.

Lenders took back more homes in August than in any month since the start of the U.S. mortgage crisis.

As if expecting parents didn’t have enough things to worry about, here comes another thing to fret over: their dimming prospects of buying a home for their growing families.

A New York Times article published Tuesday reported that a pregnancy has become a potential deal-breaker when it comes to securing a home mortgage, even though mortgage rates are the lowest they’ve been in 50 years and home prices are falling.

The number of U.S. homes taken back by banks through foreclosure hit a record high in the second quarter, even as lenders delayed more homes from entering the process through short sales and loan modification efforts, according to data to be released Thursday.

The case of Carrington Mortgage shows how some loan modifications benefit only the lender.