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Realities of Real Estate: What women want in a home
Last week, Donna and I were invited to look at an Anne Arundel County property by an owner who was thinking about selling. The client described the place as being […]
Robert Nusgart: Volatility sends mortgage rates even lower
Amazing. Just amazing. The last week in the mortgage industry has been a series of wild swings of ups and downs that has culminated in a furious wave of phone […]
City approves $700K loan for Senator Theatre
A $700,000 loan to restore and add to the historic Senator Theatre was approved Wednesday by Baltimore’s Board of Estimates. The new operators of the theater, Kathleen Cusack and James […]
Court of Appeals: Car can be repossessed from debtor after Chapter 7 bankruptcy
BOSTON — A creditor could enforce an ipso facto clause in a retail installment contract and repossess a vehicle after the debtor failed to reaffirm the debt in her bankruptcy […]
Senate rejects House GOP budget-cutting plan
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday blocked a House Republican bill to require Congress to slash spending and pass a balanced-budget amendment before raising the nation’s borrowing powers. The vote […]
Realities of Real Estate: Foreclosure and Short Sale Update
In many parts of Maryland, the housing market is beginning to heal. Especially for the perimeter of Washington, D.C., popular benchmarks like the Case-Shiller Home Price Index have shown consistent […]
Delaware diocese says bankruptcy plan requires loan
WILMINGTON, Del. — The chief financial officer for the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington told a federal bankruptcy judge Thursday that the diocese needs to borrow nearly $10 million to make […]
Maryland must give out $36M in emergency aid by Sept. 30
In a use-it-or-lose-it arrangement, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development has until Sept. 30 to give out $36 million in federal emergency mortgage loans to state homeowners facing […]
Allegany County firehouse to pay $850K after loan default
An Allegany County firehouse has agreed to a nearly $850,000 settlement deal with an Illinois-based bank after the department defaulted on a lease-purchase agreement for one of its firetrucks. McCoole […]
Robert Nusgart: Home prices, rates, loan limits moving lower
This week we learned that mortgage rates are moving lower, housing prices nationally are moving lower and FHA loan limits are gearing to move lower. So all mixed together, what […]
Pending home sales drop in Baltimore area
There were 2,712 home sales contracts signed in the Baltimore metropolitan area in April, 5.1 percent below the 2,857 total in March, and 21.8 percent below the tax credit-fueled surge […]
NY man adds e-mails to Facebook ownership lawsuit
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York man who claims he struck a deal with Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 that entitles him to half of Facebook Inc. has included in a […]
