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The Federal Home Loan Bank system has increased low-cost lending to financial institutions in an effort to bolster credit stability. As the housing crisis worsens and the Federal Reserve has swooped into the market to ensure liquidity ...

Four more Eastern Shore residences will be on the block this Friday, according to a release from an auction company today. As our reporters have covered in recent weeks, auctions have become an increasingly popular way to unload homes in ...

First-time homebuyers and people with poor credit would have greater access to federally insured mortgages under bipartisan legislation lawmakers are likely to take up this fall. Proponents in Congress say allowing the Federal Housing Administration ...

Sales of existing homes fell in 41 states during the April-June quarter while home prices were down in one-third of the metropolitan areas surveyed, a real estate trade group reported Wednesday.

An auction of seven properties on the traditionally close-knit watermen

A contest to brighten up the homes in a neighborhood defined by hundreds of brown facades and increasing crime gradually transformed the future - and the front porches - of a community.

D.R. Horton Inc., one of the nation's largest homebuilders, is being sued by a one-time customer who says he was forced to use the company's affiliated mortgage service to buy his home, according to a regulatory filing.

Home sales will hit a five-year low this year, as wary lenders cut back on loans for many borrowers, a trade group for real estate agents said Wednesday. The National Association of Realtors' revised forecast calls for existing home sales ...

General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it has completed the sale of its Allison Transmission commercial and military business to The Carlyle Group and Onex Corp. for $5.6 billion. The sale, announced in June, includes seven manufacturing plants...

NEW YORK - American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and two other mortgage lenders said they were not accepting new applications, signs that the worst housing crunch in decades could be widening.