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BofA offering up to $30K for short sales

5/15/2012 5:37 PM

Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure....Read More

Mortgage delinquencies drop to 4-year low

5/16/2012 9:21 AM

The percentage of borrowers who have dropped behind on their mortgage payments fell to a four-year low in the first three months of 2012, a bankers' group said Wednesday....Read More

George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan

5/16/2012 6:56 AM

The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area's residents thwarted the plan....Read More

Park Ave. co-op sells for record $52.5M

5/15/2012 1:18 PM

A recent sale in New York's famed 740 Park Avenue apartment building marked the highest price ever paid for a co-op in the city's history....Read More

Unique home in the Jersey woods

5/11/2012 10:12 AM

One of America's most flamboyant private residences lies in the woods of northwest New Jersey. It's the personal vision of artist and craftsman Ricky Boscarino and reflects his eccentric world view....Read More

Redo your roof the right way

5/11/2012 5:30 AM

It's hard to imagine a less enjoyable way to blow $5,000 to $15,000 (or more) than putting on a new roof....Read More

Artist's habitat in the Jersey woodlands

5/11/2012 10:16 AM

Ricky Boscarino is a sculptor, painter and jewelry maker whose biggest art project for the past 23 years has been his home on five quiet acres....Read More

Housing: The one bailout America could really use

1/17/2012 6:20 PM

Laurie Goodman is an apolitical number cruncher who has spent most of her 28-year career out of the public view, studying the minutiae of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) for big investment banks. She's long been a star among Wall Street insiders, however. She holds the record for the most top rankings for fixed-in-come research from the trade bibl...Read More

Another record low for mortgage rates

5/10/2012 9:49 AM

Mortgage interest rates hit new lows this week as both the 30-year and the 15-year fixed-rates fell, according to a weekly survey by Freddie Mac. It was the second consecutive week that rates broke records....Read More

10 housing markets set for double-digit price gains

5/9/2012 12:28 PM

Ten hard-hit housing markets will record double-digit price increases through 2013, according to a report Wednesday....Read More

Today's Real Estate News:

On the (Old) Road to New York

5/16/2012 10:49 AM

This 18th-century estate in New York's Westchester County includes a centuries-old milestone used to direct stagecoach drivers and once had its own baseball team...Read More

If Kids Can Play, Will Mom Shop?

5/15/2012 9:26 PM

In their bid to keep shoppers from deserting to the Internet, more malls are adding sprawling play spaces....Read More

CBRE Taps New Vein From Old Deal

5/15/2012 5:42 PM

The real-estate company's top-of-the-market acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. has turned out to be the deal that keeps on giving, in the form of incoming CEO Robert Sulentic...Read More

Florida's Next Frontier

5/15/2012 4:22 PM

A parcel of timberland in Florida that is nearly the size of Rhode Island and owned by a who's who of elites from the worlds of business and diplomacy is now slated to be the next frontier in the state's real-estate development....Read More

Billings Slip Back

5/15/2012 9:12 PM

After five months of positive readings, the Architecture Billings Index slipped back into negative territory during April, an indication that demand for design services declined...Read More

Cool Again, Britannia Invades the Home

5/11/2012 7:45 AM

Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee has inspired designers to come up with products that capture the moment. With so much merchandising to choose from, this is the perfect opportunity to flex your collector's muscle....Read More

Fearing the Worst on Park Avenue

5/15/2012 9:06 AM

The national luxury-home builder Toll Brothers is moving to alter two small, pre-Civil War houses that survive amid the tall co-ops of Park Avenue, despite lobbying efforts by neighbors to save them....Read More

Is Now the Time to Buy Your First House?

5/14/2012 11:34 AM

Yes, says RBC Global's Eric Lascelles, who believes homes are more affordable than they've been in quite a while. No, says economic consultant A. Gary Shilling, who contends that home prices have 20% or more to drop before they hit bottom...Read More

Ally's ResCap Unit Files Chapter 11

5/14/2012 5:56 PM

In addition to the bankruptcy filing for its mortgage subsidiary unit, Ally said it would pursue the sale of its international operations, including auto-finance businesses and insurance operations....Read More

An Extreme Kayaker Brings His Work Home

5/11/2012 8:18 PM

Perched on a bluff above the Columbia River Gorge, the 3,500-square-foot contemporary has a view of the changing river waters in an area that's known as a mecca for outdoor sports....Read More

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