Study: Minority mortgages skew toward 'high cost' loans

Story date: 2007-10-05 01:52:00
Added on: 2007-10-05 05:00:43

Chicago Sun-Times - The study, sponsored by Richmond, Va.-based mortgage insurer Genworth Financial, concluded that 48 percent of home loans given to blacks and nearly 42 percent of loans given to Hispanics last year met the government's definition of "high cost "loans ...


Read more...

Related Stories:

• Study: Minority mortgages skew toward 'high cost' loans (Chicago Sun-Times)

  A disproportionately large percentage of mortgages made to blacks and Hispanics last year met the government's definition of "high cost" loans, a...
  2007-10-05 02:19:16

• Minorities pay more for home loans, study shows

  San Diego Union-Tribune - The Foreclosure Exposure report found that nearly 31 percent of home-refinance loans made to African-Americans in San Diego...
  2007-09-05 02:56:00

• Study: minorities get 'high-cost' mortgages (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

  A disproportionately large percentage of mortgages made to blacks and Hispanics last year met the government's definition of "high cost" loans, a...
  2007-10-05 02:46:37

• Many minority mortgages 'high cost,' study says (Houston Chronicle)

  A disproportionately large percentage of mortgages made to blacks and Hispanics last year met the government's definition of "high cost" loans, a...
  2007-10-07 10:47:33

• Mortgage-cost bias found locally; Toledo area 17th-highest in loans to blacks, study says (The Toledo Blade)

  African-Americans in metro Toledo get more high-cost home loans than do white residents, although the proportion is down slightly from a similar...
  2007-09-06 03:05:35

• Study finds minorities often get riskier mortgage loans (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)

  A study shows blacks and Latinos in the Lansing, Mich., area are more likely than whites to get high-cost, subprime loans when...
  2007-09-09 04:30:37

• Real Estate by Christie Smythe : High-cost mortgages go across racial lines (Arizona Daily Star)

  A recent study of racial disparities in home loans found that Tucsonans bought into a lot of high-cost loans last year —...
  2007-09-11 12:21:55

• High-cost loans are concentrated in north St. Louis County

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The study, using data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, identified the 20 census tracts in the city...
  2007-11-28 07:50:00