Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought
Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...
Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
A Huffington Post analysis of recent mortgage-modification data shows that even those relatively few homeowners fortunate enough to renegotiate their ...
Wall Street Journal | M.P. McQueen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China. D...
Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
While the Obama administration and reporters trumpet the fact that the administration is about a month early in reaching its stated goal of modifying ...
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.
McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
My trash themed take-away at the end of my car trip? Not all that litters is old, nor is all garbage created equal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business
First, minorities were disproportionately steered by lenders into subprime loans. Now there's news that they're disproportionately being denied when t...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business
Since Labor Day passed, I have felt less like a real estate lawyer and more like a character actor in an awful horror movie.
Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- ...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
A former client sadly related that her home is "worth less than $600,000 and we owe close to $800,000. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't believe what I've lost."
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
Buying a new house last December was an easy decision for Brad and Melanie Juarros. They had been eyeing foreclosed properties for months in their Sa...
Iris Martin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Now it's time for the predatory lenders, brokers and foreclosure consultants to sweat. Here is the skinny on what to do and not do in your own mortgage war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Cramdown is back. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) tells the Huffington Post he plans to revive the effort to give...
Huffington Post | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
The Huffington Post is examining the fallout from the housing bust, and we're looking for homeowners who have become landlords. Are you trying to su...
AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...
The Wall Street Journal | M.P. MCQUEEN | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
Hard data are scant on how many homeowners are renting out their homes, but anecdotal evidence suggests numbers are up. In one indication of the trend...
Michael J. Panzner | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
Suddenly, fewer Americans feel compelled to keep up with the Joneses or to follow in the footsteps of those before them.
Jim Randel | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business
Home ownership has been oversold to the point where renters may feel like second-class citizens. Or, stupid not to buy. Well today many renters are having the last laugh.
Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
We had experienced matrimonial bliss before the matrimony but it wasn't until we purchased our first house that the real roles and responsibilities of 'husband' and 'wife' took effect.
Jim Randel | Posted 07.30.2009 | Home
Do not rely on the government to protect you. Do not rely on the good faith of your friendly real estate agent or mortgage broker. Educate Yourself.
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
MESA, Ariz. - She had seen the advertisements for the new government program offering relief. She had heard President Obama promise that help was on t...
Washington Independant | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
When U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced last week that first-time homebuyers soon will be permitted to turn their $8...
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business