More news sites here:
|
|
A report out from a realestate information company says the number of homes being foreclosed on in the Bay Area continues to soar. RealtyTrac says 1,635 Bay Area households were notified last month that their properties were scheduled for foreclosure auctions.
|
|
Countrywide Financial said Thursday its mortgage fundings for last month fell 44 percent from the same period a year ago, and the mortgage...
|
|
WASHINGTON -- This year's decline in existing home sales will be steeper than previously anticipated, a trade group for real estate agents predicted Wednesday.
|
|
Volatile home prices and homeowner's struggles to make mortgage payments assure some non-property owners that having ignored temptation to buy during the real-estate boom was the right decision.
|
|
The retailer has unveiled plans for stores that have a focus on bath and kitchen products and design showrooms. The new locations will use softer lighting and easier-to-reach shelves.
|
|
The IRS is taking a closer look at like-kind exchanges, which are used by many real-estate investors.
|
|
The city's first downtown supermarket in 50 years is drawing more than grocery shoppers: It's feeding potential buyers to new lofts above it, half of which are already sold.
|
|
Weak housing sales nudge rate higher. Rentals of retail space in weak markets are getting hit disproportionately hard.
|
|
A slew of modern office buildings is on tap for Monterrey which anchors a warehouse region where everything from refrigerators to auto parts are assembled and stored.
|
|
General Re is putting a Greenwich, Conn., waterfront office building on the market. Plus, Americans would rather have a new nuclear-power plant in their town than a casino or a landfill, a survey shows.
|
|
Susan Foley, recently appointed “foreclosure czar” for the city of Denver, has seen firsthand the impact of people losing their homes.
|
|
An index that charts the risk of home-price declines across the United States is giving Silicon Valley a slightly improved forecast.
|
|
A study released Tuesday by home mortgage insurer PMI Group predicts there is less than a 10 percent chance D-FW prices will fall during the next two years. Nationwide, the odds are more than 30 percent of a decrease in home prices. The mortgage insurance company, based in Walnut Creek, Calif.
|
|
This week's Open House looks at bubble bloggers' newfound acceptance, how failed housing deals may come to bite one lender, homeowners struggling to get a loan in California, more subprime woes and what's ahead for home builders.
|
|
Marshall Loeb offers tips on how to avoid losing your home if you can't pay back your loans.
|
|
A number of factors -- including a possible government crackdown on illegal workers and a slowdown in job prospects for undocumented laborers -- threaten the ability of these borrowers to keep paying.
|
|
The Florida landowner plans to cut or transfer hundreds of jobs, cancel its dividend and push to sell its land, in another sign of the painful real-estate downturn in the state.
|
|
Spanish lenders are bracing for tough questions on how they will weather a downturn in the domestic real-estate market and cope with funding that has become more expensive and less plentiful.
|
|
With its extensive coastline, rolling farmland and mild climate, the southwestern county of Cornwall, England, is a popular place for vacation homes.
|
|
North Texas home sales plunged in September. The 19 percent drop in sales of pre-owned homes was the largest annual decline in more than seven years. But even with the slide in sales, area home prices stayed positive – up 3 percent for the month.
|
|
Working from home is a privilege but can be trying when one's house is under construction. Nancy Keates on wishing the people she hired would pick up the pace.
|
|
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is investigating the way investment banks packaged mortgages into securities and how credit-rating companies evaluated them.
|
|
Housing prices in the United Kingdom Spain and France have fallen in recent months. Economists warn that the malaise could spread to other European countries.
|
|
The owner of Coldwell Banker and Century 21 real-estate brands plans to relaunch a brokerage chain after reaching a licensing agreement with magazine publisher Meredith for the brand name.
|
|
Goldman Sachs and Aetos Capital intend to bid as much as $1.1 billion for the shares of Tokyo-based property developer Simplex Investment Advisors.
|
|
