Florida's attorney general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial Corp. for engaging in "deceptive and unfair trade practices." ...more

July 2, 2008

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office said today it has filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial for engaging in "deceptive and unfair trade practices." The suit says Countrywide, one of the nation's largest mortgage companies, knowingly put Florida borrowers into mortgages they couldn't afford or into loans with rates and penalties that were "misleading." ...more

July 1, 2008

As if losing a house on the court steps weren't enough, some former homeowners may find themselves turned away by apartment owners spooked by the foreclosure history on their credit reports. ...more

June 28, 2008

RIVERVIEW - Robert Ramirez awoke in the middle of the night to clanging metal and a rumbling moving truck in the back yard next door. ...more

June 27, 2008

Across the country, people are losing their homes. Banks and lenders are taking them back in historic numbers. As the headlines have shouted for months, the Bay area has earned the distinction of having one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation during the past year. It's almost twice the national average. But the steady drumbeat of numbers doesn't show the human toll. ...more

June 27, 2008

In early 2006, Tampa developer Ed Oelschlaeger was at the height of his career. ...more

June 21, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- For the first time in almost two years, Pasco County has roughly $500,000 in money from the State Housing Initiatives Partnership program, according to George Romagnoli, the county's community development manager. ...more

June 18, 2008

For the second month in a row, Florida has ranked fourth in the nation for its high foreclosure rate, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac, a housing research firm in California. ...more

June 13, 2008

In a decade handling evictions for the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Albert Fernandez has run across a middle-class father bankrupted by his daughter's cancer treatment, an old woman scammed by a gambling husband, and countless families perpetually on the edge of poverty. ...more

June 8, 2008

The Greens owed $580 to the homeowners association, so it foreclosed and the family lost its home. It's an increasingly common story. ...more

June 2, 2008