At a time when most builders have put down their tools, Pulte Group Inc. has started a 184-unit town house development overlooking the Passaic River in Garfield.

The Victorian Government will probe Fairfax Media over its real-estate junkets program, after the company decided to extend the controversial free-trips scheme into 2011.

When we checked this spring on the Brien Center purchase of Mt. Carmel Church on Fenn Street in Pittsfield, Catherine Doherty, Brien's chief executive officer, cautiously described the upcoming sale.

Then came the war of the appraisers. The week before Adamczyk was scheduled to close, a lending company turned down the buyer's loan because the house's appraisal included a discussion of the cancer cluster that state health officials have declared in the community.

Home sales fell steeply in July after the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, but the D.C. housing market didn't fare as badly as the country as a whole.

The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.

T he Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has announced significant changes to the designations of real estate agents and to the education requirements to become a "Realtor." Curr ently all are designated as either a "Real Estate Salesperson" or a "Real Estate Broker." The new designations will be "Broker" and "Managing ...

The game plan: Obsbaum and Curotto had the house professionally photographed. They listed it on the multiple listing service, advertised it on the Internet and held an open house.

Did greedy mortgage brokers, real estate agents and financial gurus kill the economy? Or did the economy kill the brokers? Are there any benefits left to home ownership? Not according to Time Magazine.

A former Simon Property Group executive has agreed to pay $766,000 to the Indianapolis mall developer to settle a lawsuit it filed against him.

For more than $1 billion, you can buy Christopher Kennedy's Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.

The housing market in Rome and Floyd County ticked upward in August, with 61 homes sold, up from 53 in July and 53 in August of 2009.

Record low levels of demand continue to haunt the U.S. housing market. After the tax incentives to buy a new home ran out, July and August were pretty dismal months for real estate.

August was not good to the Greater Victoria real estate market. A total of 425 homes and other types of properties were sold through the Victoria Real Estate Board's Multiple Listing Service, down 102 from 527 in July and 339 from August of last year.

After nearly a year of multimillion-dollar renovations incorporating green energy and employee-wellness features, Health Care REIT Inc.