The mortgage mess settlement proposal is a repudiation of the servicing industries’ standard business practices. The agreement also reads as an indictment — not just of the servicing industry, but also of law enforcement, regu…
Yet another problem has begun surfacing in the documents banks have been using to foreclose on homes: false notarizations. Notaries have been attesting legally to signatures they didn’t witness, sometimes by people who didn’t a…
In some parts of the U.S., the real estate market remains deep in recession. But even with housing prices sitting at multi-year lows, millions of houses remain empty, unable to attract buyers haunted by unemployment and a weak …
Despite new federal laws designed to protect them, many tenants are caught up in foreclosure dramas as building owners struggle to hold on to their properties. And if the real estate market doesn’t improve soon, the problem cou…
An explosion and fireball rocked San Bruno, Calif., destroying 53 homes and killing at least one person. The explosion apparently came from a high-pressure gas line.
Fire shot hundreds of feet into the air at 6.15 pm local time Thursday, KTVU reporte…