Homeowners can borrow up to that amount to make energy-efficient improvements.
The agency's chief economist goes against the grain on the housing market's future, siting jobs and low mortgage rates.
Things were going well for a married couple with kids until they got greedy and built a home they couldn't afford to keep.
Our honest financial look at 11 years in one home proves what one blogger labels 'an ugly truth.' Still, it was worth it.
The strategic placement of furniture might have tipped off the homebuyers that something was amiss.
Doubt undermines trusted data on home sales. And home prices slip again, near crash's lowest point.
One year later, 48 who walked away from their houses look back with shame, anger … and enormous relief.
North Dakota is begging people to move there and fill vacant jobs. Could it be that many are pinned down by underwater mortgages and unsellable houses?
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