Discover how loan modification can help you avoid foreclosure, understand government programs available, and learn the steps to apply effectively.

In the post-pandemic era, mortgage rates hit their highest level in years as the Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate to fight inflation. Compare your top mortgage loan rates now. "As ...

The Obama Administration is gearing up to play hardball with mortgage companies that only temporarily lower struggling homeowners’ monthly payments. But as the drive to make more loan modifications ...

If you’re looking for better mortgage terms, loan modification and refinance can be viable options to improve your financial health. Financial struggles can happen to anyone, but homeowners have ...

Apparently the easiest way to get a loan modification these days is to have a news reporter make a call for you. That seems to have been the case for Maria C. Nido, a friendly and humble 55-year-old ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in 2012, a ...

FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair has announced that IndyMac Federal Bank FSB will implement a new program to systematically modify troubled mortgages. The program is designed to achieve affordable and ...

A new report shows that Barack Obama's loan modification program has, so far, failed to stop the growth of foreclosures. The report, which was released Friday by the federal government, shows that ...

To bolster its effort to reduce foreclosures, today the Obama administration announced new changes to its Home Affordable Modification Program. The proposed measures include allowing unemployed ...

Help is available for residents with mobility difficulties who want to stay in their homes. Michaela Grady, a housing planner ...

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in ...