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ASHLEY HALLIGAN - The short-term rental market - largely seconds homes and vacation rentals - is alive and well, thanks largely to online portals thrusting this unique form

To help keep foreclosures moving through the distressed property pipeline, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has again made it easier for investors or others to "flip" properties. With certain

Investors get it coming and going. They are speculating sinners after markets crash, but saintly saviors when demand for good times are here again. To wit. The Federal Reserve

• Silicon Valley's Julie Larsen Wyss, a broker associate with Intero Real Estate Services, recently met a couple who wanted to buy one of her listings, but had

Short-term rentals have become increasingly popular in the past few years, thanks to the growth in online rental portals like HomeAway.com and Airbnb.com. Short-term rentals, often second-home and vacation-home

An updated federal rule should make business opportunity offers more transparent and less prone to fraud, but the rule is small potatoes for the largely-ignored work-at-home economic sector. A

Capitalizing on the growing number of home buyers from abroad, Realtor.com is delivering its millions of domestic listings to buyers around the world, while showcasing listings from foreign

One in three working stiffs isn't getting as much out of his or her retirement plan as they could because they aren't putting as much in as they

TERICA KINDRED -- While investing in real estate is simple in theory, it is rarely easy in its execution. There is much involved - from banks' stringent requirements and

Vacation rental investments paid off so well this summer more than one in three vacation rental owners plan to raise the rent for the holiday travel season. Travelers? Book

The cost of education comes with the cost of student housing, but savvy investors can make a real killing on investment properties in the right college towns these

Here's one more nasty little statistic that will make underwater homeowners wheeze for air. Banks are selling more homes than builders. In fact they are selling more than three

Real estate investors who legally cash in on rising home values by buying and quickly reselling, or "flipping" properties shouldn't be confused with an offshoot band of "floppers"

Some say the end is near -- for either an up or down housing market -- when foreigners rush ashore to jump on the bandwagon or go for

Investors have the moxie, the moola, and the mindset to muscle in on first time homebuyers and they make no bones about their plans to do so, making

The same market conditions that are making "affordable homes" household words are also creating bargains in the vacation home segment and, right now, the discounts can come with

In Florida's Broward County, cash deals made up 69 percent of homes sales in February, according to the Southeast Florida Multiple Listing Service data. In Las Vegas, home sales

It's only a good time to buy a vacation rental if you are really cut out for the job. Property prices as low as they've been in a decade,

Right now, the languishing housing market offers some lingering upsides for those who have some investment dollars to burn. Home prices are low, financing is cheap and inventories are