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German bank under fire in Florida and at home
In hundreds of cases, the money trail from foreclosed and abandoned homes in South Florida leads across the Atlantic to Germany and this country's largest investment bank. Deutsche Bank was a heavyweight financial player during the American mortgage...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Financial and Business Services, Religion and Belief, Real Estate, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lakeshore East high-rise on track for February opening
Lakeshore East's eighth residential high-rise tower is on schedule for a February opening. Coast is a luxury rental property under construction at 345 E. Wacker Drive in Chicago, on the northwest corner of the $4 billion, 28-acre master-planned...
Tags: Media Industry
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Snagging a low mortgage rate requires steady paycheck, good credit
Sun SentinelJust how do you get one of those super low mortgages? This week, Freddie Mac reported home loans hit new historic lows with the 30-year fixed interest rate averaging 3.53 percent and 15-year fixed rate loans dropping to an average 2.53 percent. South...Tags: Loans, Real Estate Buyers, Miramar, Mortgages, Real Estate
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Condo prices cut at Lake Park Crescent
Prices have been slashed on CityHome condos at the Lake Park Crescent development in Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood.
Once priced at $219,000, the one-bedroom units, which occupy the ground floors and include patios, are now $109,800. The...Tags: Architecture, Geneva (Kane, Illinois), Passenger Cars, Shingles, Leslie Mann
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FHA rescinds tough new credit restrictions on loan applicants
WASHINGTON — In a policy switch that could be important to thousands of applicants seeking low-down-payment home mortgages, the Federal Housing Administration has rescinded tough new credit restrictions that had been scheduled to take effect Sunday....
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Credit Ratings, Loans, Equifax Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance
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Florida tops the nation in force-placed insurance
Florida led the country in its share of force-placed insurance premiums the past three years, including 35 percent, or $1.2 billion, in 2011 — more than three times the amount sold in the next-largest state, California. That's according to sworn...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Consumers, Justice System, Mortgages, Trials
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Ousted management company fails to cooperate with board
Q: Our condominium association has been managed by a management company. At the last board of directors meeting several weeks ago, a quorum of directors voted to terminate the management company. A certified letter was sent to the owner of the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Condos, Mark Pearlstein, Companies and Corporations
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Wells Fargo agrees to pay $175M settlement in pricing discrimination suit
About 1,000 Baltimore-area residents are expected to receive thousands of dollars each under a landmark $175 million settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Wells Fargo over accusations of discriminatory lending practices.
Under the terms...Tags: Loans, Financial and Business Services, Washington, DC, Justice and Rights, Chicago City Hall
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Low-profile Obama donor has deep pockets
When President Barack Obama comes to Baltimore for a large fundraiser Tuesday at an Inner Harbor hotel, he'll first stop at the home of an Owings Mills developer who has kept a remarkably low profile despite having poured hundreds of thousands of...Tags: Pikesville, Mitt Romney, Willard Hackerman, Benjamin L. Cardin, Eric Cantor
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Being able to buy a home does not necessarily mean you should
Real Estate MattersQ: I am a 22-year-old student who has been pre-approved for a loan to purchase my first home. I have about $10,000 in savings and don't want to spend all of my savings to get into a house. Do you know of any incentives or deals that could help me get into...Tags: Financial and Business Services, Rentals, Chicago Mortgages, Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages
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Free online guide helps struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure
Sun SentinelHundreds of thousands of Floridians threatened with foreclosure now have new help: The nonprofit Consumer Action group has just written a free online resource guide to help struggling homeowners facing foreclosure. Housing Help: Consumer Action's...Tags: Consumers, Real Estate
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Tumultuous decades for a housing-aid activist
Vincent Quayle knows the corrosive effect of foreclosures well, sitting as he does at the helm of a nonprofit group that helps homeowners in trouble.
But he says the current foreclosure crisis is nothing compared to the damage wrought by the...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Financial and Business Services, Demonstration, Unrest, Conflicts and War, African Americans
Jul 15, 2012
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Jul 8, 2012
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Jun 14, 2012
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Jul 12, 2012
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Mar 15, 2012
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Aug 26, 2011
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Jul 10, 2011
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