When a is neglected, neighbors usually do not know who to contact for its maintenance. Abandoned and vacant foreclosure properties are becoming a thorny issue on several neighborhoods in New Jersey as they could become blights and pull down home

A homeownership survey showed that home buyers are motivated to because of low interest rates and property prices. The survey indicated that 65.2 percent of potential homebuyers are driven by affordability to hunt for bargain-priced foreclosure properties.

Florida is one of the states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. And the growing number of is becoming a major problem that needed immediate attention from the local governments.

Foreclosure causes undue stress to everyone, even to housing counselors. In Chicago, , where the number of continues to soar, homeownership consultants, as they are known professionally, even worked during Saturdays to cope with the growing number of distressed homeowners

The city of in had imposed an ordinance that became a national model for mandating that lending institutions maintain abandoned and vacant to prevent them from becoming blights to neighborhoods.

Retail chains are using the fine print in their leases to demand rent reductions, eking out critical savings and pressuring mall owners already struggling with vacancies.

Consolidated Resorts, a Las Vegas time-share developer with 14 resorts from Hawaii to Orlando, filed for bankruptcy-court protection.

Residential brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman today released its first-ever quarterly rental Manhattan market report, revealing an eye-popping 58.3 percent drop in rental transactions from last year as waves of unemployment battered the city. The report, which tracked data about the

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Manhattan apartment rents fell as much as 18 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier as rising unemployment curbed demand. The median price dropped 3.1 percent to $3,100 a month, appraiser and broker

It still may be no bargain, but it's waaaay cheaper to rent an apartment in than it used to be.The price per square foot of a Manhattan apartment fell 17.5% in the second quarter compared with last year, according to

How long after you pass the Arizona real estate class do you have to take the state license exam?

One of my greatest concerns for consumers involves home builders who suck people into their office with ads promoting ridiculously low price per square foot rates. Once might ask why I write about this issue, and the answer is because

Buying a home or land in Sequim or Port Angeles includes a lot of options on the size of your lot. This is an agricultural area that has grown slowly, and as a result, lots have been created from farmland

The way real estate is bought and sold is dramatically changing, and new business models are evolving in the brokerage business. A hybrid is developing. There are many reasons this is true, but some of the reasons are related to

Because the Obama administration recognized the role of securitization in the rise in , the administration has been considering further regulation of the securitization market.

The number of , increased in May, according to local real estate and foreclosure records.