The current wave of foreclosure fraud and the consequences for the economy are difficult to follow. As such, I’m going to write a few posts to simplify what is going on so you can follow stories as ...

With foreclosures rising around the country — Realty Trac estimates than the number of houses entering foreclosure was 25 percent higher in January 2007 than in January 2006 — more investors are ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The New York Observer‘s Max Abelson has done some of the better reporting on How Wall Street Thinks. It’s “let them hang ...

Speculators fled the real-estate market in 2006 when home prices began falling. But there are investors looking to make money in the battered housing market by buying foreclosures — and they may be on ...

Q: We are facing foreclosure, and have been notified by the lender that a foreclosure sale will be held about three months from now. Since we received the bank’s notification, we have been flooded ...