Nearly a year after the catastrophic Equifax hack exposed 147 million Americans’ personal and financial data to cybercriminals, consumers are about to get a...

The catastrophic theft of 143 million consumers’ personal data from national credit bureau Equifax could cause financial grief for years for homebuyers and mortgage...

You can call it Big Brother. You can call it high-tech snooping. But be aware: If you are applying for a mortgage in the...

Are medical bill collection accounts buried away inside millions of consumers’ credit files — even bills that were fully paid or settled years ago...

With foreclosures soaring — and homeowners with unblemished payment histories abruptly walking away from their houses with no advance warning to lenders — the...

Recession-hammered homeowners’ credit scores are on the decline across the country, say scoring industry experts, and that makes more consumers vulnerable to scams that...

Buyers will need to list debts taken on during “the quiet period” before closing Despite earlier reports to the contrary, it turns out that...

Buyers will need to list debts taken on during “the quiet period” before closing Despite earlier reports to the contrary, it turns out that...

The way homeowners deal with their mortgage problems can have a significant impact on their credit scores, according to VantageScore Solutions, a scoring company...

U.S. mortgage delinquencies continued to go up in June, according to data from the Equifax credit bureau. Of homeowners nationwide with mortgages, 7.23 percent...