Real Estate News

We are now heading toward the end of the spring homebuying season, and mortgage rates remain near record-low levels.

The open house on a leafy street near South Miami featured a snack wagon with cupcakes and chilled beverages, but the real draw was the newly listed house for sale for $435,000. Over a two-hour stretch on a Sunday afternoon, 44 groups of couples and families streamed through the well-kept 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house on an outsized lot.

ONE of Australia's largest real estate agencies is targeting children as young as four as the next generation of home buyers.

Carol Nurmi of San Jose paints her investment property home which she has been remodeling in order to sell or rent it out, on May 13, 2013 in Union City.

Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the last of 28 miners killed last week when an underground room of a giant Indonesian gold and copper mine collapsed, the operator of the U.S.-owned facility said.

Helen Fausnaught, a real estate professional in Rehoboth Beach has joined the Keller Williams Realty At The Beach Market Center after leaving Prudential Gallo.

On our previous Real Estate Death Match , the East Capitol studio apartment handily defeated the Flat at Atlas.

The Wichita Area Association of Realtors and its Community Involvement Committee are lending a hand, literally and figuratively, to help ease some of the suffering in Moore, Okla., from this week's EF-5 tornado.

Sales of existing homes rose 0.6 percent in April to an annual rate of 4.97 million units.

Stocks are moving higher Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it was too soon for the central bank to pull back on its economic stimulus programs.

Mark O'Donnell usually books his family's summer vacation in January. For the last dozen years, that meant reserving an oceanfront house for a week in Long Beach Island, a quiet cluster of beach towns on the New Jersey shore.

While the residential real estate market is generally believed to be improving nationwide, some of the residual effects of the Great Recession still affect the ability of real estate agents to facilitate home sales.

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013, photo, Sam and Liz Weidner, of Hudsonville, Mich., view a home for sale in Lowell, Mich.

In December, retired Coast Guard commander Dennis Zecca was arrested by federal agents in Marathon.

"I'm always the first one in," brags the 28-year-old broker at Nest Seekers International, a boutique real estate brokerage firm.

The new low inventory, though, involves the number of traditionally-marketed homes for sale and available lots to put them on.

"We've charged him with stalking. His bond is $50,000," said Detective Billy Butler with the Manchester P-D. Green is accused of using a Homes magazine to target more than 20 female real estate agents in at least three counties dating back to last year.

New York City's commercial real estate industry is edgy over the possibility of the government yanking what has come to be known as terrorism insurance, the New York Post reported.

In part one of our blog on Tips for Picking a Great Real Estate Agent, we looked at Experience, Education, Market Knowledge, and Honesty and Integrity.

Camara Inmobiliaria Argentina president Roberto Arevalo said today that "no owner is willing to receive the certificate of deposit called CEDIN for dollars." "Since money laundering took place we had concerns that the regulation is clear and simple, with a legal framework that can restore confidence for what happened .