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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will not take legal action against Zillow Group over potential kickbacks in its co-marketing program, the Seattle-based listings giant...

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has finalized changes to a mortgage disclosure rule in an attempt to limit ambiguity about when lenders need to...

President Trump says that Wells Fargo won’t escape penalties linked to alleged mortgage lending abuse, tweeting that the bank may face even higher fines....

A recent legal settlement between the federal government and a title insurance agency is drawing fresh attention to one of the murkiest, least understood...

You’ve almost certainly seen or heard pitches for “credit repair” services promising to clean up your credit problems, reduce your debt, or even raise...

Everyone knows that financing and closing on a home purchase can be complicated. Which is why more than a year ago the Consumer Financial...

If your real estate agent requires you to get a mortgage pre-approval from one specific lender as a condition of submitting an offer to...

Erroneous or outdated negative items on your credit report can be deal killers — or at least deal delayers — when you’re trying to...

If you’re planning to buy a home with a mortgage in 2016, you’re virtually certain to encounter a new consumer-friendly federal disclosure — the...

Home buyers usually don’t have a clue about the existence of under-the-table marketing kickback deals, and they can end up paying hundreds or thousands...

Mortgage borrowers by the hundreds are lining up to vent their anger and tell their tales of woe on a federally run consumer complaint...

Move over, Yelp. The federal government’s top consumer agency has just begun allowing mortgage borrowers to vent publicly — in full narrative detail —...

Hundreds of thousands of home sellers have had their pockets picked at closings during the last decade — they’ve been charged interest on their...

Ocwen Financial Corporation – a company that specializes in servicing large portfolios of underwater, delinquent and subprime mortgages – has amassed a $500 billion...

Tighter federal mortgage regulations go into effect today that place stricter caps on debt-to-income ratios, in the hopes that lenders stop originating mortgages to those who...

In an effort to boost lending, Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, has assigned roughly 400 underwriters to originate mortgages that the bank...

Luxury home buyers are hoping to close their deals before more rigorous lending rules hit early next year. The changes, issued by the Consumer...

It’s called “upselling” — steering home mortgage applicants into higher-cost terms that increase the lender’s profits — and it was rampant during the housing...

Pressured by consumer protection regulators, the Federal Housing Administration is expected to end one of its most controversial practices: charging borrowers interest on their...

A settlement between the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a Texas homebuilder is drawing renewed attention to a controversial issue that was prominent...