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...
Iris Martin | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business
Homeowners suffering from payment shock and foreclosure syndrome are not getting the psychological help they need to survive escalating vicious attacks by their lenders If payment shock and foreclosure syndrome is not treated as the national epidemic that it is, affecting over sixteen million homeowners, homeowner violence will increase, as will homeowner suicide. Toxic lenders and their cohorts, government cronies, co-conspirators and attorneys need to be punished -- in a court of law, not on the front lawn.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics
There was much to celebrate this week, as we marked the remarkable achievements of Obama's first 100 days. A high point: Michelle Obama sending a resounding message about making service a regular part of our lives by volunteering at a food bank, even though we are months away from Thanksgiving. On the other hand, there was the depressing, banking-industry-led Senate defeat of a measure offering relief to America's struggling homeowners. Coming up: Thursday's announcement of the results of the bank stress tests. Early indications are that at least some of the banks are going to need another infusion of capital. With apologies to Justice Scalia, "Fleeting expletive" no! It's time for Americans to draw the line in the sand and say that if bankers are not going to side with us when we need help, we're not going to side with them when they do.
Iris Martin | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
Homeless homeowners: Pull yourself off the couch, start reviewing those dastardly closing documents, get your loan audited and hire a qualified attorney.
Rob Morrison | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business
The obvious upside for renters this summer is that they are in the driver's seat and there are deals to be had no matter where your travels take you.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
Ignore your real-estate agent when he or she tells you the recovery is right around the corner. It isn't.
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
Lawmakers should use the current crisis as an opportunity to usher in a new era of middle-class American rule.
Iris Martin | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
There has been a conspiracy to defraud homeowners and investors alike in a parallel scheme of falsely inflating loan amounts, real estate values and credit ratings.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 04.23.2009 | Style
Richard Gere sang about it in "Chicago," Razzle-dazzle them." That's exactly what you may have to do in order to sell your house when few are buy...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
So I was pleasantly surprised -- but not shocked -- when I recently passed a test from an electrician who showed me how to do simple repairs without burning the house down.
OptionARMageddon | Rolfe Winkler | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
GDP for the full year 2008 was higher than 2007. But Q4 2008 GDP was lower compared to Q3. So towards the very end of the year, the denominator (GD...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
How can Tauscher claim that there's anything "moderate" about working on behalf of the bankers who created this crisis?
Charles A. Clarkson | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business
Few Americans realize it, but more than predatory lending or deregulation, more than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, decades of runaway housing subsidies are a fundamental cause of the housing bubble.
Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
The relative cost of owning versus renting is swinging back in favor of homeownership in some U.S. markets, buoyed by several quarters of sharp declin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business