The default rate for mortgages recently insured by the Federal Housing Administration has been climbing, an alarming trend for an agency that is playing a vastly expanded role in the mortgage market and backing roughly a quarter of all the loans made last year. ...more

January 26, 2009

As you know many condo associations are dealing with some residents' inability to pay assessments as owners face foreclosure. As a result of the rules governing foreclosures, for the first time our association expects to incur bad debt expenses this year. ...more

January 25, 2009

Kimberly Matlock was about to lose her Illinois home to foreclosure when a shiny flyer from Clearwater arrived in her mailbox. ...more

January 25, 2009

After all these years, discovering the secret to happiness in life came as something of a surprise. ...more

January 23, 2009

This is in response Ron Geouque's letter in the Sunday paper. This letter is wrong on so many points; I don't know where to start. ...more

January 22, 2009

The federal rescue of the nation's financial industry has perplexed the average taxpayer, who cannot find out how the money has been spent or see how it's helping anyone in the neighborhood. ...more

January 20, 2009

BayWalk's owner on Tuesday agreed to refrain from fighting the complex's foreclosure, meaning the downtown St. Petersburg shopping center could be sold as early as next month. ...more

January 14, 2009

BayWalk's owner today agreed to refrain from fighting the complex's foreclosure, meaning the downtown St. Petersburg shopping center could be sold as early as next month. ...more

January 13, 2009

A judge has ordered the foreclosure of downtown St. Petersburg's centerpiece shopping and entertainment complex. Judge J. Thomas McGrady ordered that BayWalk be foreclosed upon and set a Feb. 13 date to auction it off. Its owner has been unable to renegotiate the $14.5 million mortgage or find another lender. ...more

January 13, 2009

Larry Bunkley and Tina Henderson figured they had a couple of more months before they had to find a new home, with foreclosure pending on the house they shared with their baby girl off Simmons Loop Road. ...more

January 12, 2009