The mortgage underwriting process determines whether your loan is approved. Learn what underwriters scrutinize, common deal-killers, and how communication helps you reach the closing table.

USDA loans: With a USDA loan, you can modify your mortgage with an extended term of up to 40 years, reduce the interest rate ...

Inheriting a house with a mortgage makes an already difficult time more stressful. Unfortunately, it usually happens when you're grieving, and your clear legal authority over the property may not be ...

A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try. By Tara Siegel Bernard Student loans have long been ...

The federal Repayment Assistance Plan, or RAP, will be the newest student loan repayment plan. President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” passed in 2025, made many changes to federal student loan ...

The city of Aurora is in the early stages of developing various new lending programs for economic development, sustainability and community projects. In general, city officials have said the four ...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to end a student loan debt forgiveness program used by millions of Americans. The feds said Dec. 9 that they had reached a proposed court settlement to kill the ...

The administration of President Donald Trump plans to end a student loan forgiveness program first launched by former President Joe Biden. The administration on Tuesday announced a legal settlement ...

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Education has excluded nursing from its definition of "professional degree" programs as it implements student loan changes under President Donald Trump's "One Big ...