The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) was established in 2009 as a way to help struggling homeowners refinance in the aftermath of the housing crisis. Because of lower down payments and the ...

(BPT) - When the federal Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) launched in 2009, millions took advantage, but many other homeowners found they couldn’t qualify to refinance their underwater ...

The Home Affordable Refinance Program to help underwater homeowners refinance into lower-rate mortgages — and thereby lower their payments and stay in their homes — has finally started to catch on in ...

Homeowners with a high loan-to-value ratio are often denied a refinance on their homes even if they have good credit and have not missed a payment for a year or more. However, on August 25, 2016, a ...

Tampa, Fla. -- Nearly half of all Bay area homeowners are underwater. In other words, they owe more than what their home is worth. In an effort to provide some relief, President Obama announced on ...

WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - The top U.S. housing regulator on Thursday extended by two years a popular federal refinancing program to allow more borrowers with government-backed loans to lower ...