Bulk Home Sales: Who Benefits?

Some strategies to boost the US housing recovery also benefit individual home buyers and even small investors. But plans announced by federal mortgage superagency Fannie Mae and various other entities to wholesale foreclosed homes in bulk to large investment groups...

Hardship Short Sales: A Break for Sandy Victims

The recent Hurricane Sandy affected mortgage holders in hard-hit Northeastern states in a number of ways. Lenders from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on down stepped up to offer ways to ease the burden of mortgage payments and avoid foreclosure. Among those options is...

Life After Sandy: Mortgage Help for Homeowners

Natural disasters can polarize the country. As residents in several states struggle to regain their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that walloped the East Coast over the last weekend in October, pundits, politicians, advertisers and...