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Freddie Mac said Thursday the going rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell to 4.69%, its lowest level since the company started keeping track 38 years ago.

Sales of previously occupied homes dipped 2.2 percent in May, suggesting government home-buying incentives are winding down earlier than anticipated.

The brochure promises a "monument to unparalleled success."

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday accused a New York firm that helped manage complex mortgage securities of defrauding investors as the housing market collapsed.

In a nationwide effort, officials file criminal charges against individuals allegedly responsible for $2.3 billion in fraud. 'These schemes are despicable; they are dangerous to our economy,' Atty. Gen. Eric Holder says.

A grand jury has indicted the chief executive of what was once among the nation's largest independent home-loan providers on 16 counts of bank, securities and wire fraud.

US home loan giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are to cease trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Extending the homebuyer tax credit won't avoid a possible double-dip, only delay it.

What to do when one owner wants out, one doesn't.

The stock market rebounded Wednesday after a stronger-than-expected increase in pending home sales restored investors' optimism about the economy.