Mortgage loan originators will have to be fingerprinted and sign up to a central registry to do business in future, according to new rules issued by the Federal Reserve and other regulators.

Mortgage - Business - Mortgage broker - Federal Reserve System - Financial Services

Households across a majority of large U.S. cities received more foreclosure warnings in the first six months of this year than in the first half of 2009, new data shows.

United States - Metropolitan area - Real estate - Foreclosure - Business

For the second year running, ForbesWoman has gathered the data and crunched the numbers to determine the U.S. cities that offer the most to working moms.

United States - ForbesWoman - Arts and Entertainment - Home - Family

As the real estate market has turned, so, too, has the real estate consumer. Many adults are no longer sold on the merits of owning a home.

Real estate - Renting - Business - Business and Economy - United States

Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June and are expected to keep sinking, indicating that the housing market's troubles are likely to drag on the economic recovery.

Business - Residential Housing - Construction and Maintenance - Sales - Manufactured

Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers' total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the past year to around $3.7 trillion, a government watchdog said on Wednesday.


United States - Government - Business - Financial Services - Inspector General

Homebuilders' confidence in the housing market has sunk to the lowest level in more than a year, fresh evidence that the economic recovery is slowing.


Real estate economics - United States - National Association of Home Builders - Counties - Business and Economy

The commercial real estate industry is rising to the dawn of a national rebound, say market insiders in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle.

Real estate - Los Angeles - Commercial property - Business - New York City