Stories tagged "housing"

Treasury Department on Sunday unveiled an extraordinary takeover of twin mortgage buyers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, putting the government in charge of the twin mortgage giants and the $5 trillion in home loans they back.

Canadians are buying American homes, saving some areas hard-hit by the housing crisis. While sellers welcome them, in some places, they're turning the accents to French.

After decades of Upper West Side splendor, two New Yorkers moved to an old mill by the Mississippi.

Blog Entry About Gads Hill House in Santa Rosa

There are no other investments available to the average investor that offers the combination of outstanding benefits that are available to real estate investors who invest in real estate. In this article, let’s look at what makes real estate such a goo

A California man has obsessively been building a castle by hand since 1988, complete with towers and turrets.

Dan Allen won’t have to fumigate his new apartment to keep roaches from invading anytime soon.

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Georgia, was closed by U.S. regulators today, the 10th bank to collapse this year amid a surge in soured real-estate loans stemming from the worst housing slump since the Great Depression.

Images of a Colonial-style house in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

It just might be the next hot thing. A steel building is functional, sturdy and — if you can like it simple enough — quite a bit cheaper than a traditional house.