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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

Christmas just wouldn't be the Christmas without the workers you love, but many workers essential to the holiday shopping season can't afford to buy a home where they

The latest study extolling the intrinsic value found in green homes puts energy efficiency at the top of the list of features buyers most desire. The Yahoo! Home Horizon

One in five works as a '1099er,' helping to support an unsupportive economy. Some of them are reluctant, others entrepreneurial, a third variety is a hybrid of both and

FEDERAL RESERVE -- All twelve Federal Reserve Districts reported that real estate and construction activity was little changed, on balance. Residential construction, sales and prices remained flat, at

In a mashup of three recent housing market reports, home ownership has suffered its greatest bust since the Great Depression, 10 million more foreclosures may be headed for

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

Don’t expect a sonic boom, but the housing market is poised to turn around next year and much of the nation should be in full-fledged recovery by 2013. The

Housing-related tax breaks are as American as apple pie and politicians who want to cut the tax perks that come with housing may want to consider another line

Home prices have crashed back to 2002 levels and the double dip is on, but nearly three dozen markets are enjoying varying levels of home price appreciation. A few

Against all odds created by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, a network of community organizations beat back bad times and saved a host of distressed neighborhoods

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

It's not just that credit is tight and incomes are light. With reams of regulatory bans, counseling mandates, prohibitions and disclosures, too many home buyers still don't have a

With tight fisted lenders more often seeking hefty down payments from those seeking to buy a home, more state agencies are pitching in to help qualified borrowers who

More than half of the nation's community associations struggle with financial issues associated with the mortgage foreclosure crisis and related economic downturn, according to a national survey by

Vacation rental owners in New Orleans are enjoying the largest increase in traveler interest, compared with other popular destinations, despite the BP oil disaster. In the second quarter 2010,

Silicon Valley's housing market is well on its way up, but it still has a long way to go before home values return to peak prices reached back