It may be a buyer's market out there, but it isn't a broker's. Which makes this year's theme at the 2009 Realtors' Conference in San Diego (November 13 -- 16) -- "Chart a Winning Course" (keynoter: Condi Rice) -- seem both hopeful and sad. Here's a look at the business of homes.READ»
At Canadian Funding Corporation we pride ourselves on being a team of real estate and mortgage lending experts who have come together to fund deals that many regular lending institutions often overlook. We also love to share - ...READ»
Alyssa Katz
NYU journalism professor
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Edmund L. Andrews
New York Times reporter
Macro: Katz traces the crisis's roots to the twin push for lower-income homeownership and ...READ»
Affordable, modern architecture is a white whale. Which is where Hometta comes in. The site, which goes live next month, will offer modern house plans designed by 20 up-and-coming contemporary architects. The plans will range ...READ»
Living on 2,000 watts is harder than it sounds--that's roughly a sixth of the average rate of energy consumption in America.* But GFRY Studio, a graduate course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, challenged ...READ»
The handsome home you see above represents the bleeding edge in green design: It's a "passive house," designed by Toronto's Paul Raff Studio. With "automated shades, passive ventilation and mature deciduous ...READ»
As the President's stimulus package approaches $1 trillion, the Senate is looking to cut the fat. In the senators' sights: about $6 billion in funding for expanded broadband access, much of it for wireless access in rural areas, among ...READ»
The press is abuzz this morning about a new report saying sales of single family homes rose in December. The rise in sales at the end of the year reverses a pretty significant slide that happened over the eleven (maybe more) months ...READ»
Emerson’s essay extols the virtues of self-reliance. Indeed, the virtues proposed in this essay on self-reliance made this country what it is today. But, self-reliance is more complex them simply fending for your ...READ»
Green building is booming even more than expected, indicates a report released today by McGraw-Hill Construction. In our July/August issue, senior writer Linda Tischler reported that 10% of all U.S. housing starts will include some ...READ»
