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Fast Cities: Cleveland Reimagining a More Sustainable Cleveland Initiative   |
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May 2009
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Fast Cities: Malmo, Sweden After recession nearly wiped out Malmo's industrial base in the 1980s, the city has had a chance to start over, creating eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: San Francisco Bank on San Francisco |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Chicago Chicago's Smart Card seems almost too simple: one card that gives access to the trains, buses, and a local car-sharing program. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Denver The Mile-High City's Five by Five program opens the doors of Denver's cultural institutions to some of its youngest and poorest residents. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Vancouver, British Columbia The host of the 2010 Winter Games is going for green, using its big moment as a chance to catalyze change. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Fast Cities: New Orleans The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example is the Broadmoor Improvement Association. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Can You Really Just Walk Away? Giving up on your mortgage and letting the bank foreclose on your property might seem easy, but how smart is it? |
Fast Company
May 2009
Ellen McGirt |
Fast Cities: Tucson Mayor Robert E. Walkup has turned Tucson into a place where health and public safety aren't an afterthought, but an integral part of municipal planning. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Abha Bhattarai |
Fast Cities: Taipei, Taiwan Taipei is striving to achieve "zero landfill, total recycling" by 2010, 30 years ahead of the UN's trash targets. |
Fast Company
May 2009
Zachary Wilson |
Fast Cities: Houston Despite a weakening real-estate market, development around Houston's Discovery Green is still strong. And, of course, the park is appropriately earth-loving, recycling its water and waste and drawing 100% of its power from renewable sources. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Others' Foreclosures Can Hurt You Even if your mortgage and your portfolio have not been affected by the credit crunch, the current crisis may adversely affect your home's value. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Bank of America to Halt Foreclosures Bank of America will halt foreclosures in all 50 states. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Don't Go Near Housing Stocks Until the mortgage market gets sorted out, you should still avoid the homebuilders. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Palmeri & Kopecki |
Why This Slump Is Different Foreclosures are rising fast, investors are sweating, and lenders are now bending over backwards to keep bad loans alive. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2007
David Lee Smith |
The Mortgage Lenders' Dual Masters Whatever steps some lenders and loan service agents are willing to take to help troubled mortgage holders, the crush of delinquencies and foreclosures, along with radically tightened credit standards in the mortgage industry, will make for a slow recovery for the U.S. housing market. |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Mitigating Mortgage Problems If the politicians' plan for saving borrowers won't help you, this might. Here are some things to try to get off the road to foreclosure. |
This Old House
December 2007
Keith Pandolfi |
How to Escape Mortgage Disaster If you foresee trouble making you mortgage payments next year, don't panic - there are options out there to help you stay afloat |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2004 |
Understanding Mortgage Brokers For many people, the best way to get a mortgage is through a broker. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Freezing Mortgage Rates Is Not the Answer People who shouldn't have qualified for a mortgage got their keys to a piece of the American dream. But now the bill is coming due. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2010
Travis Hoium |
MBIA Shares Popped: What You Need to Know MBIA shares jumped 10% in intraday trading along with the mortgage insurance sector as investors speculate they will be able to put-back private mortgage insurance claims on big banks. |
This Old House
Mary Jo Patterson |
11 Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure Worried you won't be able to make your mortgage payments? Protect your home and your investment with this expert advice |
U.S. Banker
July 2010 |
Mandatory Education To prevent future stress in the housing market at the levels we see now, financial education should be required of anyone who receives a mortgage. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2006 |
How Much House Can You Afford? When getting a mortgage, don't bite off more than you can chew. |
U.S. Banker
April 2007
Holly Sraeel |
Tough Lessons for the Subprime Market...Again That New Century finds itself in this predicament should come as no surprise. The burning question? When will the other shoe(s) drop, and how painful will that be for the industry and investors? |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2010
Bob Ivry et al. |
Faulty Foreclosures May Prolong the Slump Probes of whether lenders followed the rules could halt seizures, and that could keep the real estate market from finding its bottom. |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2010
Zainab Fattah |
Dubai: The First Foreclosure Barclays' landmark case paves the way for other lenders to go after homeowners in default |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Homeowners Free-Riding on the Bank's Dime Foreclosed on, but still happily at home. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Dean Foust |
Look Out Below, Lenders The end of the mortgage boom is nigh -- and it could get ugly for banks and thrifts. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Where to Rent, Where to Buy Less emotion, more numbers. Since renting can be a substitute to owning, a relationship between rental rates and home prices exists that can't be ignored. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006 |
Mortgage Brokers Demystified Mortgage brokers make a lot of sense (and money) for some people. |
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June 23, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
Banks Say No Thanks to Reverse Mortgages Should you do likewise? |
AskMen.com
Nick Kennedy |
The Foreclosure Crisis With recent news that many financial service companies had been employing "robo-signers" to help foreclose on thousands of homes around the country, many banks voluntarily declared a moratorium on booting people from their residences. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Mortgage Myths Don't fall for these myths when it's time to buy a home. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2012
Nicolas P. Retsinas |
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors' Prison Since the recovery of the housing market will undergird any broader recovery, we must address the current situation of these debtors' prisons. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Dolan Media Falls in Love With Foreclosures One beneficiary of the mortgage meltdown is Dolan Media. The legal publisher also operates a mortgage default processing platform. Investors take note. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
5 Reasons to Scrimp for a Down Payment Of the million or so hurdles you can encounter between you and your first home, the down-payment hurdle can sometimes loom the largest. It's not easy, but it can save you more money down the road. |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
Kathleen M. Howley |
Delays in Short Sales Frustrate Home Buyers Short sales could accelerate the resolution of the housing crisis -- if the process is streamlined by the big federal mortgage lenders |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2007
David Meier |
Quick Take: Subprime Scariness The process, not the outcome, is the scary part of the subprime disaster. Who's to blame? The mortgage lenders? The home sellers? The buyers themselves? (Whatever happened to caveat emptor?) |
U.S. Banker
May 2011
Babara A. Rehm |
Waiting and Hoping Is Bad Public Policy It won t be popular, but the Obama administration is going to have to bite some political bullets to deal with foreclosures and mortgage servicing. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Housing's Frozen Rope The hazards of bailing out borrowers by freezing rates may be worse than proponents realize. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 5, 2009
Greg Smith |
2009 Bank Tech Forecast: Less Paper Can Help Ailing Mortgage Industry There are a couple of bright-spot opportunities on which mortgage bankers can focus. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Christopher Palmeri |
Lenders Switch On Their Back-Up Systems After one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders announced earnings 17% below expectations, investors wondered if the nation's three-year-long mortgage bonanza might end not with a soft landing but with an earnings-pummeling thud. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Freddie and Fannie Free-Fall There may be no choice but to bail out the behemoth mortgage lenders. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2009
Christopher Palmeri |
Short Sales: A Fraying Lifeline for Homeowners Lenders are reining in short sales aimed at helping troubled mortgage borrowers. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Not the Time for Countrywide The news certainly isn't all bad at mortgage giant Countrywide these days. It is a solid company that will likely emerge stronger from the current crisis, but it will take time. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Real Estate Reality Check Should you pay down your mortgage or put that money in the market? If your investment horizon is long -- at least 10 years -- then the stock market is likely to be a great place for your money. Here are some ideas. |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2009
Theo Francis |
Washington Revives the Mortgage Cramdown As foreclosures continue to surge, congressional Democrats are pitching courtroom solutions to homeowners' woes. The Administration is wary. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2007
John Rosevear |
Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history. |
U.S. Banker
May 2009
Alan Kline |
Will Dismal 2008 Give Way to a Banner 2009? Will historically low mortgage interest rates draw buyers back into the home market? |
