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TransUnion: Credit quality of mortgage borrowers nationwide has improved
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....
Tags: Banking, Mortgages, Federal Reserve, Loans
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Redfin's valuation tool puts homeowners in driver's seat
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...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Real Estate Sellers, Mortgages, Real Estate Buyers, Services and Shopping
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Chicago-area home sales, prices improve in April
Tribune staff reporterMore than 9,000 previously owned homes were sold in the Chicago area in April, another strong month for sales volume that was met by more pricing recovery. The Illinois Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that 9,152 single-family homes and...Tags: Inventories, Real Estate Sales, Homes, Mortgages, Real Estate
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Man gets 12 years in mortgage fraud scheme
Tribune reporterA 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...Tags: Punishment, Prisons, Mortgages, Trials
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U.S. home prices keep rising, but homeownership is down
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...
Tags: Homes, Financial and Business Services, Prices, Blackstone Group, L.P., Foreclosures
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MarksJarvis: Financial literacy programs well worth the time
It's Money Smart Week, a collection of free financial literacy programs offered throughout the week, aimed at helping people deal with virtually every money issue imaginable: from how to get out of debt, to buying homes, paying for college, building a...Tags: Personal Finance, Financial and Business Services, Colleges and Universities, Interior Policy, Mortgages
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Taking the less-known route
If you can't get in — or can't afford — a top business school, is an MBA from a lesser-known school worth it? The answer depends largely on the student. Those gunning for the top of the organizational chart, and without the networking...
Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Northern Illinois University, Students, Employment Opportunities, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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In Washington National, they trusted
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,...
Tags: Financial and Business Services, Punishment, Corporate Crime, Foreclosures, Career and Workplace
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Home values in some hard-hit Chicago neighborhoods turning around
Some of the Chicago neighborhoods hardest hit by the housing crisis are starting to come back, or at least appear to be bottoming out. Home values in the Pullman/Riverdale/Roseland neighborhoods, for instance, rose by an average of 18.6 percent last year...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Financial and Business Services, Values, Chicago Loop, Foreclosures
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Woodstock Institute finds gender bias in joint home loan, refinancing approvals
Co-borrowers may want to rethink whose name goes first on a mortgage application. Early findings from a study under way at the Woodstock Institute found that in the six-county Chicago area, joint applications for home purchases and refinancings were much...
Tags: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Feminism, Joint Ventures, Mary Ellen Podmolik, Freddie Mac
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Distressed home sales topped 44,000 in Illinois in 2012
Sales of distressed homes in Illinois surged last year, particularly transactions designed to keep properties out of foreclosure. Of the 44,337 distressed homes sold in Illinois last year, 16,449 were short sales, an increase of 53 percent from 2011,...
Tags: Inventories, Homes, Financial and Business Services, Mortgages, Real Estate
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Bridgeview slides further into debt to support stadium
One of the Chicago area's most debt-saddled suburbs is borrowing even more money as it tries to put off the worst of its financial pain over the struggling Toyota Park stadium. The latest borrowing binge — $27 million — will put Bridgeview...
Tags: Politics, Mortgages, Credit and Debt, Local Government, Taxation
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