Mortgage Foreclosure & Refinance Resource

JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are halting home foreclosures while the Obama administration develops its plans to help the battered American housing market.
JPMorgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, said the bank planned plans to halt new foreclosures for owner-occupied home loans through March 6. Mr. Dimon made the pledge in a letter to Representative Barney Frank, the [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama’s economic team is expressing interest in a U.S. Treasury plan to spur homebuying through new securities aimed at driving down mortgage rates.
Incoming White House economic chief Lawrence Summers is seeking details of the proposal from Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, who put together the plan’s foundation with Columbia’s Christopher Mayer. Mayer [...]

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Breaking news from WashPost: Federal regulators seized three banks tonight, including Downey Savings and Loan Association, a large California mortgage lender, expanding what is by far the most expensive crop of bank failures in modern American history and indicating that the pace of failures is increasing.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which took control of the [...]

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