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The Evanston apartment vacancy rate decreased slightly in 2004 but remained close to 2003’s 20-year record high, according to a recent study.
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Bernanke: Banks still key in lending "Nevertheless, nonbank lenders have become increasingly important in many credit markets, and relatively few borrowers are restricted to banks as sources of credit" Banks play an important, though perhaps
Mortgage Fraud Convictions Thrown Out (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned the convictions of two brothers imprisoned in 2003 for conspiring to defraud dozens of banks out of $58 million in mortgage loans.read
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