by Ellen Brown Mortgages bundled into securities were a favorite investment of speculators at the height of the financial bubble leading up to the crash of 2008. The securities changed hands frequently, and the companies profiting from mortgage payments were often not the same parties that negotiated...

A grand jury in Santa Clara County has indicted three individuals with foreclosure fraud. The case involves homeowners across California and six other states and homeowner of mostly Latino descent. The indictment against Rene Alvarez, age 39, Mariano Ortega, age 34 and Cydney Sanchez, age 60 alleges...

Lending institutions that practiced predatory lending in California communities in Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego and Stockton with high cost subprime loans are failing to prevent foreclosures in those communities. The California Reinvestment Coalitions new report reveals that there is a...

The numbers are almost unbelievable however forecasters predict that within the next two years the number of home mortgage foreclosures will reach an overwhelming figure of twenty five million. The number of foreclosures since this housing crisis started in 2007 to present is just over eight million....

Homeowners that are delinquent on their property mortgages are attempting to stop mortgage servicers from foreclosing on them by citing compliance mistakes, lost documentation and predatory lending. An attorney in California has boosted about his success in halting mortgage lenders from foreclosing...

Forest Park, Oklahoma Reverend Horace Scott and his wife Michelle are fighting to keep their home of fourteen years. The Scotts are in a catch twenty two of mortgage mess brought on by Countrywide’s’ predatory lending practices. Scotts are not along in this situation and their story is just one of...

The Obama Administrations plan to help consumers from losing there homes to foreclosure has been genuinely effective in assisting approximately two hundred thousand homeowners. The first half however of 2009 alone has brought on nearly one point eight million in foreclosures across the country. Mortgage...

Originaly by Mary Kane: A year after calls for reform, borrowers still forced to waive rights for loan modifications.  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even as the Obama administration presses the lending industry to get more mortgage loans modified, the practice of forcing borrowers to sign away their legal rights...

Originaly by DataQuick: La Jolla, CA.–Lenders filed a record number of mortgage default notices against California homeowners during the first three months of this year, the result of the recession and of lenders playing catch-up after a temporary lull in foreclosure activity, a real estate information...