Sector: Real Estate

If your long-term plan is to keep working, investing and living where you are until the day you retire, and then change your lifestyle and financial life, you are practicing what I call “cliff living”—living one way until you abruptly leave the world of work, then leaping to a whole new level of life and finances.    Read More

Applications for U.S. home mortgages jumped last week, fueled by increased demand for refinancing as interest rates fell, an industry group said on Wednesday.    Read More

Applications for U.S. home mortgages jumped last week, fueled by increased demand for refinancing as interest rates fell, an industry group said on Wednesday.    Read More

Attorneys general from more than 40 states have signed on to a proposed settlement agreement with five of the nation's largest mortgage servicers over “robo-signing” foreclosure processing abuses, according to the lead negotiator, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.   Read More

A potential $25 billion settlement between the nation’s four largest banks and the 50 state attorneys general over faulty foreclosure processing is imminent.    Read More

While homeownership may be a tenet of the “American Dream,” renting is today’s actuality for a growing number of Americans.   Read More

Shares of Toll Brothers have leveled off after a four-month run, and bulls are targeting the luxury homebuilder on the recent pullback.   Read More

It will go through the government mortgage insurer, the Federal Housing Administration and could cost between 5 and 10 billion dollars, according to senior administration officials.    Read More

Applications for U.S. home mortgages slipped last week, even as interest rates also eased, an industry group said on Wednesday.    Read More

Anyone with any cash in hand should be buying a house right now. That’s what any real estate agent will tell you, obviously, but that’s also what many investors now believe. Unfortunately, the potential home-buying public…isn’t buying it.    Read More