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Timonium condo plan has residents upset
From the road, the wooded lot looks like most undeveloped suburban parcels. But a Catonsville developer’s plan to convert the 10.2-acre lot just north of Timonium into a 64-unit, age-restricted […]
Clinic joins foreclosure motions
The students in Peter Holland’s consumer protection law clinic preparing for trial finished Tuesday’s class practicing a cross-examination based on discrepancies in signed bank documents. Holland, on the witness stand […]
What flavor will old McCormick site take on?
Next week’s foreclosure auction of the site once occupied by the old McCormick & Co. spice plant has stirred an array of visions about what kind of new development the […]
Foreclosure crisis affects more metro areas
LOS ANGELES — The foreclosure crisis intensified across a majority of large U.S. metropolitan areas this summer, with Chicago and Seattle — cities outside the states that have shouldered the […]
Auction for former McCormick site set for Nov. 5
The former McCormick & Co. factory site in downtown Baltimore is set for auction now that a proposed luxury high-rise for the Inner Harbor parcel has never gotten off the […]
Home price index falls 0.2 pct. in August
WASHINGTON — Home prices are weakening around the country, even in metro areas that were showing strength earlier in the year. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index released […]
At UB, real estate lessons taught in real time
At the University of Baltimore‘s real estate program, some of the lessons these days are in real time. That’s where Deborah A. Ford and other faculty are using the housing […]
Bogus signatures on foreclosure affidavits invite trouble
The revelation that attorneys had not themselves actually signed affidavits bearing their name in foreclosure cases has caused concern among Maryland judges, who find little solace in the fact these […]
Tab to bail out Fannie, Freddie could reach $259 billion
WASHINGTON — The government spelled out Thursday just how much the most expensive rescue of the financial crisis will end up costing taxpayers — as much as $259 billion for […]
Baltimore real estate shows signs of thaw
Despite figures from the third quarter of 2010 that show a historically high vacancy rate of 18 percent in Baltimore‘s downtown business district, some experts say the worst of the […]
Maryland Court of appeals adopts new foreclosure rule
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s highest court on Tuesday approved an emergency rule designed to identify and weed out irregularities in the mortgage foreclosure process. The new rule, which takes effect immediately, […]
Bank of America plans to resume some foreclosures
WASHINGTON — Bank of America says it plans to resume foreclosures in 23 states next week and will refile paperwork for 102,000 cases. The company says it will begin refiling […]
