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• Maryland

Could Kushner family's bigger stake in Maryland rentals expose more area residents to aggressive debt collection?

The Kushner Cos., a firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner's family, just purchased 6,000 properties in Maryland and Virginia, adding to an already sizable real estate holding in the Mid-Atlantic region.

• News

Maryland Attorney General investigating Kushner-owned apartments

Maryland Attorney General is investigating the practices of the apartment company owned by Jared Kushner's company.

By Doug Donovan

Oct 30, 2017

• Business

Kushner apartments charge improper fees, tenants allege in lawsuit

Baltimore area tenants of Jared Kushner's apartment company file lawsuit alleging they are charged improper fees

By Doug Donovan

Sep 27, 2017

• News

Maryland Democrats request details on Jared Kushner apartment holdings in state

In letter Friday, the lawmakers focus on collection tactics, HUD vouchers, steps to avoid conflict of interest

By Doug Donovan

Aug 18, 2017

• News

Jared Kushner's firm seeks arrest of Maryland tenants to collect debt

The real estate company owned by Jared Kushner, son-in-law and top adviser to President Donald Trump, has been the most aggressive in Maryland in using a

By Doug Donovan

Aug 16, 2017

• Business

With mortgage rates up, Trump already makes a mark on housing market

The jolt to interest rates that followed Trump's win signaled the incoming president's market-moving power. But analysts said that for residential real estate — a sector that fuels more than 15 percent of the country's economy — it's not clear in what direction the market might be moving.

By Natalie Sherman

Nov 26, 2016

• Business

Scott Plank takes stake in Hollins Market neighborhood

Scott Plank, the brother of Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has purchased numerous properties from a major commercial landlord near Hollins Market in Southwest Baltimore, according to another developer and others involved in the community.

By Natalie Sherman

Jul 15, 2016

• Maryland

Batavick: GOP not taking personal responsibility for current political state

Some Republicans are very fond of lecturing the country on the importance of personal responsibility. Serving a long jail sentence for a minor drug offense? It's your fault for getting involved with drugs in the first place. Requesting unemployment benefits beyond the 72 weeks now allowed by law? You must be lazy and aren't serious about getting a job. A single mother of four struggling to live on welfare? Well, you should have thought about this before having those babies.

• Opinion

Too big to fail: The sequel?

Under the Obama administration's latest mortgage proposal targeting high-risk immigrants, it's no credit, no problem.

• Baltimore City

Baltimore-area groups to get first crack at buying some foreclosed homes

Neighborhood revitalization groups in the Baltimore area will get the first crack at buying some foreclosed properties under an expansion of a federal program.

By Pamela Wood

Nov 10, 2015

• Harford

Harford man sentenced in Baltimore mortgage fraud conspiracy

A Pylesville man will spend 19 months in federal prison and be responsible for paying a significant portion of almost $1.2 million in restitution for conspiring to commit mail, wire and bank fraud arising from mortgage fraud schemes involving Baltimore City properties, according to the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office.

• MARC Train

Baltimore man joins prestigious presidential fellowship program

For the next year, Joshua Patterson will take the MARC train from his home in Baltimore to Washington, where he'll join an elite class of presidential fellows on a mission to shake up federal bureaucracy.

By Yvonne Wenger

Aug 28, 2015

• Maryland

Corridor Mortgage Group opens in Mount Airy

Corridor Mortgage Group opens in Mount Airy

• Business

Home sales show best January in eight years

Home sales in the Baltimore area had their best January in eight years, and all signs point to a strong spring market, real estate analysts said. Numbers released by the RealEstate Business Intelligence and the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors — reflecting slightly different spans of time — show January sales up by 18.4 and nearly 17 percent respectively compared with a year before. The sales figure was the best since 2007, RBI reported.

By Arthur Hirsch

Feb 10, 2015

• Opinion

Social Security computer boondoggle proves conservatives' point [Letter]

The Social Security administration's computer boondoggle proves conservatives' point.

• Baltimore City Paper

Fraud at the Bottom

• Baltimore City Paper

Primer on the Federal Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

• Baltimore City Paper

Fannie and Freddie's Estimated Tab

• Baltimore City Paper

AIG Makes Profit, Fannie & Freddie Lose Billions

• Baltimore City Paper

Fannie-Freddie Updates

• Baltimore City Paper

UPDATE: Colonial BancGroup, Taylor Bean and Freddie Mac-who could have seen this coming?

• Baltimore City Paper

Fan-Fred and FHA Together Own a City the Size of Baltimore

• Baltimore City Paper

What Are We About to Buy for $1 Trillion?

• Baltimore City Paper

Taylor Bean Told to Cease and Desist, Suspend Foreclosure Activity on All Remaining Loans

• Baltimore City Paper

Lender CEO Guilty in $3 Billion Fraud

• Baltimore City Paper

Taylor Bean Criminal Trial Underway

• Harford

Matt Pivec joins Keller Williams Realty in Bel Air

Matt Pivec Joins Keller Williams Realty

• Foreclosures

Five questions with NAREB President Donnell Spivey

The 2013 State of Housing in Black America report found that African-American homeownership dropped from 48 percent in 2007 to 43 percent today and foreclosure rates were higher among African Americans and Latinos. NAREB President Donnell Spivey said he is concerned that the recession has made many people in the African American community wary of homeownership, traditionally a safe investment and a route to the middle class.

• Laws and Legislation

Some call on city to explore eminent domain to combat blight

One California city's controversial plan to use eminent domain to reduce the number of underwater mortgages has caught the eye of some Baltimore leaders, who say the city might benefit from the program too.

• Opinion

JPMorgan's money is not enough [Editorial]

As historic as JPMorgan's $13 billion civil settlement may be, justice in the subprime securities mess won't be served until Wall Street executives face criminal prosecution

• Opinion

JPMorgan's money is not enough [Editorial]

• Opinion

The real culprits of the housing crisis go unpunished

• Sales

Baltimore-area home sales, prices rise in September

Home sales in the Baltimore region continued to rise at a double-digit pace in September, numbers released Thursday show.

• Business

Memories of the financial crisis, five years later

Maryland financial professionals look back on financial crisis and the repercussions still being felt

• Opinion

Rep. Cummings: Obama's defender in chief

Baltimore's Elijah Cummings is the voice of reason on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the chief restraint on chairman Darrell Issa

• Opinion

Rep. Cummings: Obama's defender in chief

• Business

Bill Miller's fund is beating the market once more

Famed money manager Bill Miller's fund is once again beating the market, but analysts say its too early to know whether he's made a comeback.

• Opinion

Unwinding Fannie and Freddie

The president's proposal to unwind Fannie May and Freddie Mac, similar to a bipartisan bill in the Senate, points the way toward meaningful reform in housing policy that doesn't eliminate the government's role in making homeownership possible for the middle class.

• Opinion

Unwinding Fannie and Freddie

• Opinion

High cost of homeownership

Government programs that encourage owning over renting offer marginal benefits and serious risks

• Mortgages

High cost of homeownership

• Maryland

Judy S. Lubnow, 50, formerly of Reisterstown

• Opinion

Bush deserves the criticism he's getting

Bush deserves the criticism he's getting

• Opinion

Bush deserves the criticism he's getting

• Maryland

Editorial: Pay back a sign of recovery

• Fannie Mae

Gansler wants new Fannie, Freddie leadership

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and nine other attorneys general sent a letter Monday to President Obama and the U.S. Senate¿s leaders demanding new management at the government entity that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• Maryland

Editorial: Pass refinancing proposal

• Business

Consumer agency director coming to Baltimore to announce new mortgage rule

Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is expected to announce the adoption of a pioneering federal rule Thursday that is intended to prevent a repeat performance of the risky mortgage lending that led to the mid-2000s housing boom and bust.

• Politics and Government

Delaney, state's newest congressman, starts term

WASHINGTON — Maryland's newest member of the House of Representatives, Democrat John Delaney, was sworn into office Thursday amid a flurry of symbolism and celebration but also apprehension over issues left unresolved by the last Congress.

• John Delaney

Delaney, state's newest congressman, starts term