Dean Baker has the latest on the economy in the meltdown lowdown: A new bill sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, directs...

Rejecting the arguments of Countrywide executives and directors that they were unaware of lax loan operations that led to ballooning defaults, Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer...

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Determine Whether Your Loan Officer is Reputable Once you actually find a home to buy, the last thing you have time and energy to vet...

I have written at length about why the proposed housing bailouts in their current form are bad housing policy. The basic point is that they would have the government...

Since launching Zillow Mortgage Marketplace a little over a month ago, we’ve received all sorts of recommendations and feedback from our users. We have been busy...

Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve...

Last week the best radio show ever, This American Life, tackled the housing and credit crisis by talking to some of the real people involved with packaging junk no-proof...

I'm still trawling property listings sites on a semi-daily basis and I've now got alerts setup with Daft.ieOf course buying a house involves some basic economics. You...

Mortgage meltdown isn't just for people with bad credit, 2.3% of prime loans were 60 days past due in February, up from 1.4% a year ago and the highest in a decade....

As you may have noticed, we recently made some additions to Zillow Mortgage Marketplace that help borrowers learn about their individual mortgage needs and the state of...

Barbara Buchanan, Accountancy Age, Wednesday 14 May 2008 at 10:34:00 Special investment vehicle of US mortgages is put up for sale by receivers Stricken investment...

David Stout reports for The New York Times: "House Democrats defied a veto threat from President Bush on Thursday as they approved a broad housing bill that would provide...

People lose their houses and move all their stuff into self-storage, where the first month is often free. Then it turns out they can't pay their self-storage bills any...

As of 9AM this morning, 45,192 people have signed the online petition at AngryRenter.com calling for Congress to not pass any bailout programs that reward risky borrowing...

There's mucho dinero to be made in this mortgage meltdown situation, but instead of jumping in your time machine, traveling back to last summer and shorting subprime, why...

Obviously all the homeowners who read DealBreaker bought their pads in cash, but for the one or two of you with mortgages, listen up: make those payments. And we don't...

For those of you who haven’t already heard the news, today Freddie Mac reached an agreement with Wells Fargo, Citibank, Washington Mutual and JPMorgan Chase to...

Looks like there’s going to be a little more elbow room while applying that SPF 1,000 sunscreen on the beach this year. The foreclosure epidemic that's been...

Apparently, buying a house you can afford and fixing it up with a modest loan and money that you earned through gainful employment is rare enough to warrant a 3-page...

Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of the mortgage industry and focusing on whether some lenders turned a blind eye to inflated income figures...