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This brick mansion in Pennsylvania has two disadvantages. One is that it was built in 1881. The other is that it is the proverbial "most expensive house in the neighborhood."
Very low down payments are back, as little as 3%, a sign, along with high home prices, of a new housing bubble.
If that Powerball jackpot has you thinking about something more rural, the late Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, California, is on the market for $100 million.
Detroit has maintained a small, and largely unsuccessful program called Building Detroit that allows people to buy homes for as little as $1,000 at auction.
We looked at the home remodeling projects that return the most value nationally because some of them struck us as surprising given the conventional wisdom.
When a real-estate market is "hot," that means it's good for sellers and real estate agents, and not so good for buyers. But the month of July may be a bit different.
The most visited listing at Reator.com is a huge home in Batavia Township, Ohio, just west of Cincinnati. At nearly 5,000 square feet, it comes with 5.5 acres and a price tag of $885,000.
Housing prices have recovered all the way to 2005 bubble levels. But is the new level a bubble as it has been in the past?
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, sits in the northern part of the state, about midway between Detroit and Chicago. It has a population of about 260,000 residents. It is a relatively poor city. Median household...
Philadelphia is far north enough that it would not seem to be at much risk for hurricane damage. However, it makes the list of the “Cities Where Hurricanes Would Cause the Most Damage” written by...
One of the reasons that home prices have been rising nearly every month in nearly every state is that the inventory of affordable houses is not keeping up with demand. In many areas that are highly...
The number of opinions on the value of a particular home remodeling project is at least as large as the number of remodeling projects homeowners might want to tackle.
Among the 15 largest cities based on the mortgage fraud rate, nine are in Florida. The rate in Miami is twice the national level.
Mulholland Drive runs through the Hollywood Hills, just below the famous Hollywood sign, and at the top of the hill is a four-acre estate that is this week's most expensive real-estate listing.
In July of 2006, U.S. home prices reached their pre-recession peak. The 10-year anniversary of that crest comes about a year before home prices are expected to reach that level again.