Sector: Real Estate

2011 was the worst year on record for the nation's builders, in sales and starts, but demand is slowly returning, and the concern is that when demand really surges in the coming years, there will be too little supply to meet it.    Read More

It took more than a year to strike a deal, but here it is, the biggest government-industry settlement in history, surpassing even big tobacco.   Read More

Barely two weeks into a new government program that allows severely underwater borrowers with loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to refinance their loans to lower rates, the numbers are surging.   Read More

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