If you're behind on your mortgage payments, be glad you don't live in Georgia. There, a lender can take back the keys to your home in as little as 30 days. Lenders don't even have to go through the court system. A newspaper ad informing the public of an upcoming sale suffices. ...more

October 21, 2007

Foreclosure filings across the United States nearly doubled last month compared with September 2006, as financially strapped homeowners behind on mortgage payments defaulted on their loans or came closer to losing their homes to foreclosure, a real estate information company said Thursday. ...more

October 12, 2007

The Energy Department said Thursday that it will guarantee loans for up to 80 percent of the total construction cost of new nuclear reactors, a decision likely to further a U.S. nuclear revival that's getting started. ...more

October 5, 2007