The use of credit scores as employment screening tools is a hotly debated topic. According to a 2010 poll by the Society for Human Resource Management, 60 percent of surveyed employers conducted credit checks for some or ...
Economics & Business
Nov 2, 2011
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As housing prices in the United States continue to drop, a Kansas State University professor says the best way to help the market is to stop delaying foreclosures.
Economics & Business
Jun 20, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Penn State Law Professor Marie Reilly, a bankruptcy and banking law expert, worries that the backlash over the current foreclosure crisis may be the "medicine that kills the patient." Laws and regulations ...
Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2010
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Subprime mortgages were not the main reason behind the housing crisis that started in 2009 and continues to bedevil the faltering U.S. economy, according to a University of Michigan study.
Economics & Business
Oct 22, 2010
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Although the rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of market forces that have been well-documented, the foreclosure crisis was also a highly racialized process, according to a study ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2010
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Foreclosure reduces the eventual sale price of a home by an average 27 percent, compared to the prices paid for similar properties nearby. Those nearby homes, in turn, could see their own prices depressed by 1 percent, if ...
Economics & Business
Aug 4, 2010
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Foreclosed homes dot the American landscape — they make up about one in 12 houses with under $1 million left on the mortgage. These foreclosures drive down home prices, both because they add to the housing supply and because ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2010
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Current chapter 13 bankruptcy laws do little to help filers save their homes from foreclosure, according to a study published in the Journal of Legal Studies.
Economics & Business
Mar 29, 2010
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(AP) -- A criminal investigation into mortgage swindlers who lured their victims with deceptive online ads is widening.
Internet
Nov 21, 2011
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A little bit of good news is coming to the Phoenix-area housing market. Foreclosures accounted for just under 38 percent of the existing-home transactions in the area in March. A new report from the W. P. Carey School of ...
Economics & Business
Apr 20, 2011
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