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

One of the challenges many homeowners faced in the recession was financial hardships. Loan modifications were often a short-term solution banks offered for homeowners facing delinquency, income ...

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 ...

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 ...

So it appears that some Congress-critters are agitating about the utter failure that is the suite of government loan modification programs. House Republicans want to repeal the Home Affordable ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Did you ever want to see what a mortgage modification from the US government’s Home Affordable Modification ...

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 ...

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Bank completed 4,300 gov't-backed mortgage mods Pipeline of borrowers under gov't program down to 85k CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug 18 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said on Wednesday that the number of ...