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Home builders started fewer single-family homes in May than predicted, which is curious given the low U.S. supply of new and existing homes for sale.
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Lawyers for billionaires Donald Trump and Carl Icahn are in court playing a real-life version of Monopoly over who should control some prized Atlantic City property.
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The Burj Khalifa's owner says the observation deck of the world's tallest tower has been unexpectedly shut down little more than a month after it opened.
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Last month's sales of previously occupied US homes are expected to be down sharply from November after prospective buyers were granted more time to take advantage of a tax credit.
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The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan provided help to only 7 percent of borrowers who signed up last year, another black mark for the struggling program.
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Even before Dubai's financial crisis, the sheikdom's growing economic woes had begun rippling out across the Arab world, forcing foreign workers back to their home countries.
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When the Senate takes up a jobs bill soon, the debate will center on whether it really will create jobs and be worth plunging the government further into debt.
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Millions of homeowners borrowed from the house to improve their standard of living. Now, unable to count on rising home values, they can't get home-equity loans.
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Federal regulators plan to disclose that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each earned between $4 million and $6 million this year.
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Federal regulators plan to disclose that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac each earned between $4 million and $6 million this year.
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Citigroup will suspend foreclosures and evictions for 30 days in a temporary break for about 4,000 borrowers during the holiday season.
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Only about 10,000 homeowners have received permanent loan modifications under the Obama administration's mortgage relief plan, evidence of continuing woes for the government's effort to stem the foreclosure crisis.
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A New Jersey woman returned home from Thanksgiving with family to find the locks changed days after she avoided foreclosure.
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Faced with sluggish progress in its foreclosure-prevention effort, the Obama administration will spend the coming weeks cracking down on mortgage companies that aren't doing enough to help borrowers at risk of losing their homes.
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Sales of new homes rose last month to the highest level in more than a year as strong activity in the South made up for weakness in the rest of the country.
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Sales of new homes are expected to post a modest increase in October, reinforcing data this week that showed the real estate market is regaining its footing after a dramatic collapse.
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The percentage of homes bought in the United States by first-time buyer will rise significantly this year, helped by a popular $8,000 tax credit, the National Association of Realtors predicted Friday.
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A photographer and an architect plan to freeze one Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter, encasing it in ice to draw attention to foreclosures that have battered the region.
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Housing has been struggling to recover this year following the worst collapse in decades, which helped pull the overall economy into the longest recession since the 1930s.
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Federal marshals say Bernard Madoff's Long Island beach house has sold for $9.41 million.
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A mortgage fraud crackdown announced Thursday resulted in the arrests of dozens of people, including six lawyers, seven loan officers and three mortgage brokers in four states.
Realty Check with Diana Olick
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Builders started fewer single-family homes in May than predicted, which is curious given the low supply of homes.
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Now that's a shot of confidence: Home builder sentiment hit a 7-year high in June.
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Use this interactive map to track the latest numbers in some of the largest housing markets across the country.
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