USDA loans: With a USDA loan, you can modify your mortgage with an extended term of up to 40 years, reduce the interest rate ...

A mortgage loan modification can offer an opportunity for borrowers to get their monthly payment on their mortgage reduced to an amount they can afford. A mortgage loan modification may extend the ...

Loan modifications are a long-term mortgage relief option for borrowers experiencing financial hardship, such as loss of income due to illness. A modification typically changes the loan’s rate, term ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A loan program that can help with housing costs is flying under the radar in Berkshire County. The Home Modification Loan Program is a state-funded initiative that provides up to $50,000 in financing ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suggests that lenders may be overzealous in repossessing cars. By Ann Carrns Black homeownership has declined in the city and nationally in the last 20 years, ...

In previous columns, I have criticized the Obama administration's new Making Home Affordable foreclosure prevention program because it ignores negative equity -- the major factor underlying the ...