Real Estate News

Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9. U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years, and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.

Although San Diego can get wild, we can at least say that there has been no Zombie attacks, unlike what Miami is reporting to have happened on Saturday.

A The following incidents are among the official reports of theA Lake ForestA and Lake Bluff police departments .

Otto Schmidt, 84, listed his Woodland Road house for sale with a local real estate agency, and the next thing he knew, his house was listed as a rental property on Craigslist.

Above: This home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles was listed for $1.55 million and sold for about $1.705 million.

How much hotter is the San Francisco real estate market getting? Let us count the ways.

Realtor Pam Benbow of Coldwell Banker Burnet showed Chris Grobmeier, a longtime renter, a townhome for sale in Eden Prairie.

Real estate: The source of endless fascination at cocktail parties. A reason for otherwise normal neighbors to turn into peeping voyeurs as they check out the closets of their neighbor during an Open House.

Gary Miller is backed by $1.2 million in spending by the National Association of Realtors in his bid for reelection in a newly redrawn district.

Plans for a pedestrian and bike bridge between Randall's Island and the Bronx can finally move forward, as the city reached a deal with Harlem River Yards Ventures, the developer of the Bronx site.

Realtors, this is your space. Upload photos of the houses you're showing this weekend and enter the property's details in the caption.

Octogenarian Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing mapped out a succession plan for one of Asia's biggest family empires, ensuring a smoother transition for the Cheung Kong .

Homes reno Real estate agent Vanessa Roman, left, and designer Robin Lewis will seek to help befuddled homeowners find the solution in HGTV's Reno vs.

The dwindling inventories - driven by a mix of reluctant sellers, fewer foreclosure resales and rising demand - are spreading as the housing market gains strength.

This Tuesday, May 22, 2012, photo, provided by David Thornburg shows a plume of smoke rising from the Whitewater fire burning in the Gila Wilderness east of Glenwood, N.M. Fire managers said the blaze had charred more than 10,000 acres before merging Wednesday afternoon with the nearby 11,500-acre Baldy fire.

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- A gunman looking for someone he believes owes him money took an unknown number of hostages inside an Indiana real estate office Friday, police said, prompting officers to shut down nearby streets and surround the building with guns drawn.

The real estate market in Hoboken is the latest sign of recovery in the housing market, according to a report by Bloomberg .

May 25, 2012 -- TIRED OF TAKING off from work to appeal a parking ticket? Those days of running to the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication will soon be over.

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have placed their home on the L.A. real estate market.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate has reached a deal to acquire a bigger stake in apartment-building owner Archstone for $1.58 billion, according to a published report.