Up until now, state efforts to help distressed homeowners refinance have had negligible results. A new federal bill may give...

Many investors who purchased condo hotel rooms during the real-estate boom are wishing they hadn't. Some frustrated owners are bringing...

Before you redo your home make sure you know how big a renovation you can afford and how long you...

Local governments are acting more aggressively to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, frustrated by what they view as the federal government's...

Lenders that make loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration are adding costs and restrictions that make those mortgages more...

In a backlash against vinyl-clad McMansions developers are creating communities with houses that look like they were built centuries ago,...

It's not always easy to get an accurate sense of how many foreclosures there actually are and which U.S. locales...