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Borrowers who have historically turned to conventional lenders to buy homes or commercial properties are showing up on unexpected doorsteps — those of so-called hard-money lenders.

Reverse mortgages could turn into the next subprime crisis, according to some experts.

Federal regulators have ordered tiny Ideal Federal Savings Bank to find a merger or acquisition partner by year’s end.

Mix & Burn, a firm that provides digital music download services at in-store kiosks, is plotting a rollout that will take it into 40 retail outlets in the coming month.

Kindred Healthcare Inc.’s Bashford East Health Care and Golden Living Center–Camelot, which is owned by Fort Smith, Ark.-based Golden Living Centers, each will be recognized with quality awards by The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.

A Northeast Philadelphia automotive products maker has entered into a unique partnership with a local health system to make it easier for its workers to access primary health-care services.

Valley Forward Association is gearing up for what will be its largest Environmental Excellence Awards program yet, honoring the best in sustainable growth the region has to offer.

Tavares, Eustis and Mount Dora -- which form an area in Lake County known as the Golden Triangle -- will spend a combined $12.5 million during the next year to redevelop their downtown areas. And at least another $69.2 million worth of downtown redevelopment plans are in the pipeline.

Rodger Kooser, broker of R&S Realty Group, will develop a $125 million lakefront mixed-use project in downtown Tavares.

The progressive shutdown of U.S. oil and gas facilities in the path of Hurricane Gustav is proceeding in "an organized and expected fashion," a U.S. Department of energy official said Sunday.