In cities and counties across the nation, the housing bust is hampering efforts to provide basic health care to residents.
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Municipalities trim health services amid housing bust
setting up a clash with the housing regulator that oversees the companies.
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SEC moves to charge Fannie, Freddie execs
Five councils are to help first-time buyers get on the housing ladder by topping up their initial deposit.
Scottish surveyors are reporting signs of activity in the housing market but say prices are still falling.
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House sales rise but prices dip
Though the stock market may be hitting two-year highs, there’s not much to celebrate in the housing market. Nearly 11 percent of American houses were vacant in the final quarter of 2010, Census data show, adding up to 18.4 million empty homes across…
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11 Percent of U.S. Homes Vacant
As the housing market came crashing down in 2008, the giant mortgage company Fannie Mae took an unprecedented step to help tackle the rising tide of foreclosures. It named an exclusive group of law firms that would help rapidly carry out the unsavory task of filing legal paperwork to remove homeo…
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Mortgage giants fed document problems
The uncertainty over the legal status of foreclosed homes in the nation could further depress home prices and delay the recovery of the housing market, the Obama administration said.
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Treasury Sees Escalating Risk to Home Prices
The foreclosure crisis has hit blacks harder than any other group in America and it will be tough for them to regain their footing in the housing market.
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Housing crisis hits blacks hardest
Paragon, one of the largest buy-to-let lenders in the housing boom, is to return to the market for the first time in 18 months.
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Lender returns to buy-to-let fold
As the mortgage market was showing signs of failure in 2006, leading to the housing bubble that triggered the economic recession in 2008, ratings agencies deliberately ignored strong evidence that many of the loans were unsafe, according to testimony…
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Ratings Agencies Ignored Bad Loans
Canadian economic growth slowed in July amid a decline in the housing market while manufacturing edged up, an economic index shows.
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Canadian economic growth ‘slows’
