Mary Ellen Podmolik

The activity inside Fifth Third Bank's homeownership mobile has mirrored the housing industry over the past five years. When it made its first swings through the Chicago area, local bank...

Few consumers realize the influence of CIT Group Inc., but the company's perilous footing could trip up a huge swath of the business world, affecting everything from holiday season gift...

Do you hear that clock ticking? It's the sound of time creeping up on the expiration of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers. Yes, it's only July and...

For almost a decade, George Kopes' job has been to babysit the empty post office building straddling the Eisenhower expressway. In winter, he's made sure the heat stays at 50...

Highland Park is perhaps best known for its lakefront location, Ravinia performance venue and a median home price slightly under half a million dollars. But at a housing conference earlier...

The warning bells sounded pretty loud and clear earlier this month when a top banking regulator compared the potential risks of reverse mortgages with the subprime lending crisis. In a...

Bank of America is giving cities, not private buyers, the inside skinny on new foreclosures. The nation's biggest mortgage lender and servicer has come out with a new way of...

Driving around looking at properties, it's not uncommon for house-hunters to stumble across a listing they know nothing about, except that the yard sign announces it's for sale. A Louisville...

There's a new acronym that's been added to the process of securing or refinancing a mortgage, and it's one that's likely to lighten your wallet. HVCC sounds more like a...

There's a reason for that old expression, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Sometimes it actually works. That's why, with increasing frequency, stressed-out home builders are turning to distressed...