mortgage loans

More than 3,000 Hispanic consumers who were fleeced by a California mortgage company because of their ethnicity have been mailed refund checks by the Federal Trade Commission. On April 22, 2011, the FTC mailed 3,162 refund checks to mortgage loan borrowers taken advantage of by Golden Empire...

Pulte Home Corporation and Pulte Mortgage, LLC signed a $1.18 million agreement with the Arizona Attorney General following allegations that it violated the state's consumer protection law. The state found problems with the company's pre-qualification practices, earnest money deposit policies and...

Mortgage loan applications fell 4.4% in the week ending July 23, dragged down by a decrease in the number of people looking to refinance their homes. Applications for refinancing loans fell to 5.9%, the Mortgage Bankers Association said in a statement.

Some experts believe an unintended consequence of credit card reform in the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act may be to actually make it more difficult for a potential homeowner to get a mortgage loan. Heavy Hammer, Inc. is an "online networking and consulting...

The proof, they say, is in the pudding. Maybe it ought to be in the foreclosure rate? Yes, I know we are being told on Sunday morning power-breakfast talk shows that the nation's economy is improving. But the latest survey on the delinquency rate for mortgage loans from the Mortgage Bankers...