Author: Colleen Kane

Some brave souls who prefer to live the rainbow dress up their homes in bold shades. Presented in approximate “ROY G. BIV” order (how they would appear on the spectrum), are nine colorful homes (with a few pastels).

Writers are known much more for their way with words than for their ability to put impressive roofs over their heads. Of course, there are many exceptions, and their names can be found on the bestseller lists.

When it’s not a seller’s market, it could be a bright side for buyers. So where are the markets with the most bargains for home buyers on a budget?

A gated community situated between North Lake Tahoe and Truckee, Calif., counts among its members bigwigs from Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Will such upscale communities become standard for the titans of Silicon Valley? The following slides single out one of the houses in the community that’s currently on the market.

A new crop of graduates is about to flood not just the job market, but the rental market. So where will the new grads move? Here's a list of the best cities for recent college grads.

Last year’s collection of 10 Homes of Country Music Stars barely scratched the surface of the number of performers’ homes on the market, recently sold, being purchased or getting unloaded. What follows is a fresh batch of houses, mansions and compounds belonging to 13 performers, including three music-making married couples.

The pop star formerly known as Vanilla Ice has spent the past 15 years flipping houses in Florida and has found it as rewarding as the music business.

The following is a list the most expensive of the sporting events that had the most expensive luxury box suites, from baseball to basketball to football and more.

The global real estate market has some homes with majestic gardens — grand settings for relaxation and appreciating nature’s bounty.  Here's a selection of places that might conjure images of  the realms of Monet or Versailles.

The 10 richest counties in America don’t just contain Fortune 500 business headquarters (though some of them do). In many cases, the high income of a county is directly tied to the nearest commutable city.

As baseball players are traded, bought, or signed as free agents, they leave behind homes and need new ones. Consequently real-estate markets from Boston to San Diego become  awash each spring in high-end homes for sale belonging to departing and arriving Yankees, Dodgers, and Braves.

Wonder no more about the homes seen in popular network television dramas and sitcoms, as well as reality homes you see on MTV and Oxygen.

What is the deal with airport food? To find some of the most praised restaurants, TripAdvisor looked at the busiest U.S. airports and user-generated reviews to see which ones were rated the best by the general flying public.

The team at Top Ten Real Estate Deals has just compiled the annual list of the most luxurious golf homes on the market, so they dug up information on a few of the private estates of professional golfers. For the rest of this list, they sought out high-end properties located on award-winning golf courses across North America.  The resulting ten homes reflect styles from Antebellum to modern. They range from a reproduction of a 17^th century British palace to a couple of homes situated on the 18^th hole.

The end of the world is getting to be quite popular. Where would you go to “bug out?" One of the following properties was designed with hardcore preppers in mind; the rest offer more stylish and genteel ways to hide from to possible future widespread problems.