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Affordable rental buildings filling gap in senior housing
According to Zillow, nearly half of Chicago mortgages are under water.
If you have a steady job and can get a mortgage, there has never been a better time to buy your first new house.
Slight drop in strategic defaults unlikely to last as more people do the math, see they can't recover and make a business decision to walk away from their mortgage, even if it ruins their credit
The right kitchen backsplash can do double duty for a homeowner. It's functional, protecting walls from the unavoidable kitchen splatters and splashes, and it's also a way to bring color and visual interest to the room.
Buyers purchased the fewest number of new homes last year on records going back 47 years.
Marriage breakups can be tense. And when divorcing couples sell their homes, it's buyer, agent and everyone else beware.
It's been around since 1913, but its time may be up. Such a change would generate billions of dollars in federal revenue that could be used to cut the deficit while inflicting little pain on most middle-class homeowners.
Perhaps the bigger question is if this was how sellers allowed their home to be photographed for a listing, when it's presumably in the best shape, how will it look when a potential buyer comes to look at it?
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says an administrative law judge has ordered an Iowa landlord to pay $52,000 in damages and penalties to resolve a discrimination case.
Depressed about the economy? Maybe it's because you're earning less than you did before.
Suddenly, instead of talking about the housing recovery, housing analysts and economists are talking about prices that could fall dramatically during the next six to 12 months. What changed?
Two years into the banking crisis, Chicago-area lenders have yet to find a bottom.
A short sale is anything but an easy real estate transaction for sellers. It requires more work, often involves negotiators, and is characterized by the seller asking the lender to make a concession to allow the sale to proceed.
Rogers Park ranked fourth among Chicago communities with the largest number of home foreclosures per square mile in 2009