Discover how loan modification can help you avoid foreclosure, understand government programs available, and learn the steps to apply effectively.

The federal Home Affordable Modification Program, which is designed to guide the modification process to the benefit of the lender (not the borrower), has helped 12 percent of a potential 3 million ...

FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair has announced that IndyMac Federal Bank FSB will implement a new program to systematically modify troubled mortgages. The program is designed to achieve affordable and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure has been oversold by the Treasury Department and is likely to be a failure when it wraps up in 2012, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of homeowners with distressed mortgage loans linked to failed lender IndyMac may soon be able to avoid foreclosure under a program announced on Wednesday by U.S.