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Independent Foreclosure Review – More Questions than Answers The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of the federal regulators overseeing the banking and lending industry, announced the launch of a complaint process for borrowers who believe they...
Read More...Mortgage rates continue to be at near-record lows and prices for homes in the market are set back to 2001 prices. There are plenty of choices in all different types of housing and neighborhoods. It's the perfect time to buy, right? Yes, first time homebuyers have...
Read More...PORT IN A DEBT STORM Linda Robertson, right, hugs her aunt Helen Day. Ms. Robertson moved in with her in Kansas City, Mo., after she and her son could no longer afford his apartment. Ms. Robertson paid nearly $4,000 into a debt settlement account, but...
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Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University releases report on
The state of rental housing in Cook County
The need for affordable rental housing in Cook County has increased substantially in the last decade and is expected...
Rogers Park has been working on an effort to preserve affordable housing in a way that would satisfy tenants and landlords. The idea would allow landlords to receive grants to cover maintenance costs so that they could keep their rent affordable. These grants...
Read More...Owners of 96,000 two- to six-unit rental buildings in Cook County are upside-down on $12.6 billion of mortgage debt, potentially putting 42 percent of small rental buildings in the county at risk of default, new data show. A study by Read More...
Real Estate Development
Single-family home prices unexpectedly climbed in April from March, driven by a final sales push before tax credits expired, but signs of a sustained recovery have yet to emerge, Standard & Poor’s/Case...
Read More...The long and short of short sales (istockphoto.com/zimmytws / June 26, 2010) On an afternoon in late May, Chicago real estate agent Gary Lucido, president of Lucid Realty, glanced...
Read More...A distressed home awaits a buyer in Davie, Fla. Mortgage servicers have been pressured by the government to make more loan modifications permanent. (J Pat Carter, Associated Press / May 12,...
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