Homeowners facing financial hardships may be able to negotiate with their lenders for a loan modification or refinance that will reduce their monthly mortgage payment. In some cases, this is enough to ...

Many buyers tend to be interested in short sales because they’ve heard that they are a way to buy a home for less than its market value. While that statement is true, navigating the short sale process ...

Q: Do I need an attorney to bid on or purchase a short sale real-estate condominium? A: In some parts of the country, using a real-estate attorney to close a residential purchase isn’t the norm. In ...

Short sales can be great deals: a seller doesn't lose their home to the bank and a buyer gets a house for a low price. But in some cases, they flop: agreements come unraveled, buyers and sellers spend ...

Q. I owe more than my house is worth and I thought I could never sell it because I can’t pay any balance I might owe. Now I am five months behind in my mortgage payments and getting foreclosure ...

Q: Do I need an attorney to bid on or purchase a short-sale real estate condominium? A: In some parts of the country, using a real estate attorney to close a residential purchase isn’t the norm. In ...

Of the approximately 2,500 Utah County residential listings offered for sale in the Wasatch Front Multiple Listing Service, just over 600 are short sales. ”That’s not near as many (short sales) as ...

Two people have been sentenced to 180 days in Sacramento County jail for real estate fraud related to short-sale transactions. Broker Shaima Hadayat and real estate agent Harpreet Singh were sentenced ...

A Bergen County man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for his role in defrauding financial institutions out of $2.7 million in real-estate schemes, authorities said. Stephen Young ...