WASHINGTON (AP) -- Falling housing prices are driving up reports of mortgage fraud, with the FBI saying Tuesday that reported losses are up 83 percent...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 07.07.2009 | Living
But when your mortgage is past due, home is no safe haven; if real estate taxes are in arrears, your abode provides no asylum.
AP | Posted 06.30.2009 | Chicago
BURR RIDGE, Ill. — Court records show that former Chicago Bulls player Eddy Curry's suburban Chicago mansion is in foreclosure. It's the same h...
Mike Elk | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.
Daily Herald | Eric Peterson | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
One of the largest and most expensive pieces of property among the sprawling residences of Barrington Hills - the 400-acre Horizon Farms estate - has ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
The problem continues to be the administration's habit of conflating the health of the Wall Street economy with the health of the real economy -- when, in fact, the two economies have become decoupled.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.
AP | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The number of home foreclosure filings in Illinois fell in May, though they still were higher than a year ago. A report released Thur...
ABC News | MAURNA DESMOND | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
It seems like just yesterday--excess was in and celebrities lived it up, buying lavish cars, expensive toys and over-the-top homes. Now, they're losin...
Mike Sheehan | Posted 06.03.2009 | Comedy
7. "In the spirit of Huffington Post's trendsetting something-for-nothing business plan, I'm willing to live in the house... for free!"
New York Times | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures. Unfortunately, there's little evidenc...
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN and JACK HEALY | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business
As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclos...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.22.2009 | Chicago
This is what foreclosure feels like from the outside. All of a sudden, trusted neighbors whose children I was watching grow up are gone and all that's left is a littered, empty home.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
Brett Ellis, a real estate agent in Fort Myers, Fla., was thrilled when he got an offer for a property in Bell Tower Park in May 2008. "It was a gorg...
Diane Francis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
Northerners and seniors from Canada and the U.S. have always been eager buyers of real estate in Florida, Arizona, Nevada and other points southern be...
Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 05.07.2009 | Business
The Senate today approved a housing bill aimed at addressing the country's growing foreclosure problem, including revamping a troubled government fore...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday, both the House and Senate took up bills aimed holding back the wave of foreclosures drowning homeowners. Just how bad is the crisis? No...
Norman Solomon | Posted 05.06.2009 | Green
Seventy-five years after the start of the New Deal, and nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, the need for basic change on behalf of social justice and ecology is clear.
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics
by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger On Thursday, lawmakers bowed to pressure from the bank lobby and killed a crucial piece of anti-foreclosure le...
Manisha Thakor and Sharon Kedar | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed piece, Paul Krugman, the noted Economist, Nobel Prize Winner & Princeton Professor said, "...these days America is lo...
Bertha Lewis | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
In America, a family is losing its home every 13 seconds.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics
The task awaiting Obama was massive. And yet, there is a rush to decide how he's doing after 100 days. Donnie Walsh gets two years to revive the Knicks, but the president only gets 100 days to fix the country?
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The number of American households threatened with losing their homes grew 24 percent in the first three months of this year and is ...
Dave Astor | Posted 04.12.2009 | Comedy
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Reuters | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business