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Peter Maloney wanted to move back to the Chicago area from Florida, but with $44,000 in student loans to repay he figured it would be several years before he could buy a home. Maloney, 26, considered ...

Homeownership can be the key to building wealth, but that can feel like an impossible goal under the weight of student loan debt. In December, the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) ...

To offer support to working class families and communities of color in Illinois, state Sen. Laura Fine, a Glenview Democrat, is drawing attention to the new SmartBuy mortgage and student loan ...

Multistate mortgage lender Click n’ Close on Thursday announced that it’s adding a 30-year, fixed-rate conventional loan option to its SmartBuy Shared Appreciation Mortgage (SAM) program. Texas-based ...

Jasmine Townsel, 26, and her fiance, Brian Hawkins, of Bel Air, have their first home and in Townsel’s case, no more student debt because of Maryland’s new SmartBuy homeownership program to help ...

The Illinois Housing Development Authority’s SmartBuy program helps student loan borrowers pay off debt if they buy a home in the state. The program, which launched in December, will pay eligible ...

Maryland has launched a new program that will pay off student loan debt for homebuyers who purchase certain properties through the state. The Department of Housing and Community Development SmartBuy ...

ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has been contracted by global technology company, ABB, to help support its procurement digitization journey with the ...

The government agencies collaborating on the SmartBuy program unveiled an enterprise licensing agreement with Oracle that is the initiative's biggest deal to date. The deal announced last week covers ...