Hearing the news from Wall Street and Washington last week, "I held my breath," said Dennis Steinbach, co-owner of San Jose mortgage and real estate brokerages S&L Home Loans and Meridian Creek Properties. But by Friday, he said, he felt pretty good abo

One Little Rock landlord and real estate attorney has advice for some home renters: prepare for your monthly rent to go up 8 to 15 percent. He says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac adopted new regulations in the last few weeks that mean higher mortgages for lan

Mortgages for those who buy property as an investment are drying up in Britain, industry professionals said.After another week of turmoil in mortgage markets, novice landlords now face huge difficulties securing a loan, and thousands of existing landlords

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The Ombudsman has given the government’s National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHMFC) in Mindanao 15 days to explain why it foreclosed on a number of low-cost and socialized real estate mortgages and resold these to the Balikat

Lehman Brothers is considering the sale of all or part of its prized money management division to private equity firms to raise billions of dollars of capital and ease the pressure caused by real-estate related losses.