Mortgage Foreclosures

Public Action Saves Homes

Eric T. Campbell | Posted 04.01.2012

Eric T. Campbell

What has happened over the last five days indicates that the conversation about the effects of bank lending practices has progressed. It also shows that grassroots activism makes a difference.

SEC Sends More Subpoenas In Mortgage Probe, Big Banks Targeted

Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (By Matthew Goldstein and Rachelle Younglai) - U.S. regulators have opened a new line of inquiry in their mortgage foreclosure pr...

Mortgage Companies: Playing Loosely With the Rules of Foreclosure

Lisa Madigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Lisa Madigan

Ninety years ago, Kafka took aim at government. Today, he surely would find equal targets in Chase, Wells Fargo, GMAC and Bank of America.

Deutsche Bank: 'America's Foreclosure King'

Spiegel Online International | Christoph Pauly and Thomas Schulz | Posted 05.25.2011

Deutsche Bank is deeply involved in the American real estate crisis. After initially profiting from subprime mortgages, it is now arranging to have ma...

Recession on track to be longest in postwar period

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. It wasn...

Cook County Sheriff Resuming Evictions

Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE The Cook County Sheriff's office will resume mortgage foreclosure evictions Monday, October 20th. Sheriff Dart agreed to end his brief morator...