Chicago Mortgages

How do the wealthy stay wealthy? The mandatory financial disclosure released last week by commerce secretary nominee Penny Pritzker provides a rare look at an American billionaire's entire investment portfolio. Pritzker inherited much of her wealth,...

Widely reported mortgage delinquency rates are being weighed down by older mortgages and loans long past due, and more recent mortgages are performing at pre-housing-bubble norms, according to an analysis of national lending data by TransUnion....

CHICAGO (Reuters) - If you're willing to take on more risk, it's a good time to move beyond corporate and government bonds in the incredibly challenging search for yield. While attention has been on the record-setting stock market - the Dow Jones...

For the past six years, the question "what's my home worth" caused homeowners to wince. With some optimism now in the real estate market and more transactions occurring than have in years, Redfin thinks homeowners and potential homebuyers are ready to...

By John Wasik CHICAGO, May 10 (Reuters) - If you're willing to take on more risk, it's a good time to move beyond corporate and government bonds in the incredibly challenging search for yield. While attention has been on the record-setting stock...

Home prices are rising at levels not seen since the real estate boom, but American homeownership remains on the decline. The two trends underscore the nature of the housing rebound: Gains in pricing have been driven significantly by investors, leaving...

By John Wasik CHICAGO, April 26 (Reuters) - Investors chasing yield in this low-rate environment are jumping into alternative vehicles. That's helping closed-end income funds stage a comeback. Such funds, which offer a fixed number of shares and are...

A Chicago man was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after having been convicted of engaging in a mortgage fraud scheme involving 65 real-estate transactions on the South Side. The scheme which netted Fred Haywood, 42, about $700,000...

Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the new Secretary of Commerce on Thursday, in an expected move that could prove controversial for the longtime political supporter and fundraising heavyweight....

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investors chasing yield in this low-rate environment are jumping into alternative vehicles. That's helping closed-end income funds stage a comeback. Such funds, which offer a fixed number of shares and are closed to new capital once...

By John Wasik CHICAGO, April 22 (Reuters) - In the wake of a dramatic gold sell-off over the last two weeks, investors are looking for other ways to hedge against inflation. They are realizing that the metal is a false prophet of the hyperinflation that...

More than 50 struggling Chicago-area homeowners last year placed their faith and their savings into the hands of Washington National Trust, which promised to save their homes from foreclosure. The homeowners, most of them Hispanic and living in Aurora,...