If you make an honest mistake on your mortgage application, it's not fraud. But you could lose your mortgage anyway.

If there’s one thing you should know going into the home-buying or refinancing market this year, it’s this: Mortgage scams are evolving faster than ever. From phishing tactics to impersonation of ...

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Nearly 2,000 homeowners are set to receive refunds after the Federal Trade Commission announced it would return nearly $3 million to those who were defrauded by a widespread mortgage relief scheme.

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Four people have been indicted in an alleged multi-year mortgage fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say used fabricated employment, income and banking records to help unqualified borrowers obtain ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal and state officials are cracking down on mortgage modification scams, accusing “criminal actors” of preying on desperate borrowers caught up in the nation’s housing crisis.

In 2022, a property in Baltimore purchased for $43,000 astonishingly changed hands for $310,000 just a year later. This sharp ...

Amid high mortgage rates and persistent inflation, beleaguered homeowners are seeing simple accounting errors go unfixed, ...

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Mortgage advisers are being urged to look beyond paperwork that seems to add up, as complaints of mortgage fraud climb, according to a new Knowledge Hub article from NZ Financial Services Group (NZFSG ...