Columnist Nancy Keates planned to replace her aging cottage with a custom-built home for about $800,000, but now faces a $1.6 million bill. She examines her expenditures with the hopes of cutting the price.
Consumers seeking financial relief are receiving assistance only after missing loan payments. But defaulting brings all kinds of headaches.
As oil prices surge to new records House and Senate lawmakers are trying to raise states' emergency fuel funds to $431 million.
Some lenders are concerned an effort in Washington to help homeowners avoid foreclosure could lead lawmakers to scale back bankruptcy overhauls adopted two years ago.
A Brooklyn mansion held less appeal for an architect planning a makeover than the carriage house out back.
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The original plan for Lenox Hill called for a series of medical pavilions.
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One skinny mile long, Broad Channel offers beaches, bay views and a wildlife refuge, with just a hint of a downtown.
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A relatively small project turns into a major renovation.
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After he took a job in New York, John Berglund and his family were determined to live in the center of the city.
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Young and old alike are finding affordable real estate in Portland, Ore.
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Developers in central Long Island are offering upgraded home features, coverage of closing costs and other benefits to lure buyers.
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Things are always sweeter at the shore ? even in real estate, as indicated by fresh data on the market in several beach towns in New Jersey.
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As funds to restore beach sand have become increasingly scarce, Atlantic and Gulf Coast communities are having to develop their own solutions.
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This quiet town looks like a sleeper to pay attention to in the second-home sweepstakes.
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That vacation homes are often vacant and untended means that bugs have a free run of the house much of the time.
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?We?re the sandwich generation, the part of the population that has both children and parents to think about as we ? and as they ? age.?
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A large project with outdoor-focused amenities just outside Charleston, S.C., and a waterfront fractional-ownership development in Key Largo, Fla.
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Set on the high plains northwest of Mexico City, Mineral de Pozos is an unlikely place for a handful of foreign artists to settle. But over the past dozen or so years, that is precisely what has happened.
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A Houston couple is looking to buy a house in an age-restricted neighborhood, but wonder whether such residences have good resale value. June Fletcher takes a look.
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The duo have found a buyer for their Tennessee residence. Plus, guitarist Mick Jones received 25% over his asking price for his New York digs, and Washington hostess Marion Oates Charles has sold her Georgetown house.
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Wall Street Journal editor Kate Flatley Lavoie reflects on how much of her house she actually owns and the day when she can say it's 100% hers.
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Merrill Lynch & Co. may have used these transactions to delay recognition of losses from mortgage securities. The Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to investigate.
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The drop was wider than Wall Street expected and is a continued drag on General Motor Corp's bottom line.
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The Tacoma area is emerging as the region's worst subprime mortgage lending hot spot. With sales slowing and median prices falling, Tacoma-area foreclosures are rising.
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