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Once a year or so, the weeHouse hits the road to show off its unique features and educate the public on its innovative eco-friendly design. Last year, the weeHouse made its way to San Francisco. This year, with the support of General Motors and its Saturn division, the microhouse will travel to t...

Sales and home prices have dipped again in August by nearly 10 percent from a year ago, according to data released this week from the National Association of Realtors. The national, median existing-home price for all housing types was $203,100 in August, down 9.5 percent from $224,400 in 2007. Wh...

Altos Research, which tracks real estate data all over the country, identified the following ZIP code areas where homes for sale spent the fewest days on the market. In cases where communities of relatively fast-selling real estate were clustered, the best ZIP code in the area was chosen. Housing...

The Associated Press reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke bluntly warned Congress on Tuesday it risks a recession, with higher unemployment and increased home foreclosures, if lawmakers fail to pass the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to bail out the financial industry. Ber...

September 14-20 marked the fifth annual Realtor Safety Week, and with October kicking off Open House Month for many brokerage offices across the country, it's important for agents and home sellers to prepare with some basic safety tips before welcoming strangers into their homes. Here are some ba...

Homeowners across the country have been seeing their property values sink with the slumping housing market, but residents in one Florida community have a more explosive reason behind their depreciating home values. According to a Foxnews.com report from the Associated Press, an 8-year-old develop...

Homeowners across the country have been seeing their property values sink with the slumping housing market, but residents in one Florida community have a more explosive reason behind their depreciating home values. According to a Foxnews.com report from the Associated Press, an 8-year-old develop...

Every week I usually get an e-mail from fellow Homescape and Active Rain blogger, Frank Schulte-Ladbeck, on what new blog post he's working on for the week. Frank is a Houston-based home inspector, and through his blogs he gives our readers helpful advice on inspections and tips on how to keep yo...

No one is going to argue that we're in a housing slump. Although declining new-home prices and high inventory levels have dented the coffers of some top builders, many of them are still succeeding in improving overall customer satisfaction in 2008, compared with 2007, according to the J.D. Power ...

                                               For many homeowners helplessly watching their property values take nose dives and housing experts observing the market like hawks, the question on most peoples' minds these days is: Are we close to the bottom of this housing mess yet? Many industry e...