The California city of , among U.S. cities with the highest number of , was visited by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan this July.

The number of and in other cities of is expected to increase as mortgages in default and foreclosure filings keep rising across the region.

The number of foreclosed new homes in Seattle has risen further after Conner Homes, one of the top homebuilders in Seattle, failed to pay Bank of America its $24.8 million development loan.The foreclosed new homes are located in Conner's Bentley

France never lent money on the same basis as here and has always stuck to very strict lending criteria and so we are not seeing distressed sales as people have mainly bought within their means. We are however seeing some

With of Admirals Row all but set in stone, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. moved ahead yesterday with its plans to find a developer to build a 40,000-square-foot supermarket and an additional 60,000 square feet of additional retail and

We got an email yesterday alerting us to an accident in Carroll Park involving a collapsed branch that caused minor injuries to one man. But what was interesting about the email was not so much the content (which you can

What started as an all-too-common slimy maneuver on the part of a brokerage firm is morphing into a PR nightmare that will haunt its Google search results for years to come: Yesterday, after finding a for a house at 180

The color scheme was the first clue that the new restaurant under construction at 601 Vanderbilt Avenue in the old Barrette space had some relation to Fort Greene Mexican mainstay . The second clue was that the woman painting the

Apparently buyers are not willing to pay a kingly sum for the new Tuscan-style townhouses in Red Hook. Four of the newly-constructed homes at 93, 95,97 and 99 King Street hit the market last August at $1,300,000 while a fifth

Red Hook's newest watering hole can actually start watering now. Fort Defiance, the coffee-by-day-drinks-by-night spot from Pegu Club bartender St. John Frizell at 365 Van Brunt Street, just got its liquor license and will be celebrating with extended hours tonight,

It remains to be seen whether the finished product is successful, but the developer oof 2 Lefferts Place deserves some credit so far for trying to make some elements of the new building contextual with its brownstone neighbors. In particular,

Check out the response from Whole Foods to the Brooklyn Paper's this week...apparently the high-end grocery chain has not definitely wiped its hands of it. Click for prior Brownstoner coverage and click through for the memo...

There's more food action at The Flea this weekend. This week in Fort Greene, Gerald Jerky brings its grassfed beef jerky to the Flea masses. And on Sunday under the bridge, we'll have Choncho's Tacos debuting their fish creations. Mmmmm,

Earlier this week, BlackBook that a new Montreal-style restaurant is under construction at 97 Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill. What's the big deal? Evidently when the new spot, to be called Mile End, opens it will offer up a dish

Park SlopeCorcoranSunday 12-1:30$2,595,000 Ditmas ParkBrooklyn PropertiesSunday 2:30-4$999,000 Prospect Lefferts GardensBrown Harris StevensSunday 2:30-4:30$865,000 KensingtonFillmoreSunday 1-3$665,000

All things considered, things have worked out pretty well for the developers of , the converted church and adjacent row house at 264 Cumberland Street in Fort Greene. The 13-unit project hit the market in May 2008, and by the

Some of the sales recorded last week that went for $1 million or less:$250K or under: BAY RIDGE130 Bay Ridge Parkway, Unit 4B; Price=$120,000 This prewar co-op studio first hit the market last April asking $150,000, according to . Maintenance=$420.

Comment: That 14th Street owner must be psyched! [Brownstoner] [Brownstoner]

Fluor Corp. has won a military contract that will add over 100 jobs to the over 2,500 current employees they have in Greenville, SC. The contract is for management of power, food service and transportation for bases in Afghanistan in