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Housing advocates who work with homeowners say that while President Obama’s loan modification program could help thousands of New Yorkers, it has been slow to get off the ground.

Brace yourself -- there's actually some good news about the economy.

John P. McMurray made it clear to his Countrywide Financial Corp bosses that they were playing a dangerous game with risk.

Surging home-mortgage rates are threatening prospects for a quick rebound in the housing market.

The Obama administration is expected to expand its mortgage aid program on Thursday, announcing new measures that would help ...

The Obama administration's loan modification program is finally underway.

U.S. foreclosure activity leaped 46 percent in March from a year earlier, hitting a record high as programs stunting the torrid pace of failing mortgages expired, RealtyTrac reported on Thursday.

Addie Polk, who became the national face of the foreclosure crisis last fall when she shot herself during an eviction, was a quiet woman who never asked for help.

U.S. mortgage applications jumped last week as record low interest rates spurred a surge in demand for home refinancing loans, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

When Lisa Brown moved into her rental house on Long Island last summer with her three daughters, she says, it felt like a new beginning.