Homes

A Conversation With Decorator and Author Charlotte Moss

Blue Carreon | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Charlotte Moss, Decorators, Homes, Interior Design, Stylish Homes, Home Decor, Style News
Blue Carreon

Charlotte Moss is one of the grande dames of the decorating world: iconic, revered and forever looked to for all things related to stylish and luxurious living.

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Foreclosure In America Is A 'Tale Of Two' Trends

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Mortgage Bankers Association, Foreclosure Crisis, New Foreclosures, Video, Housing Boom, Homes, Lenders, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Realtytrac, Business News

LOS ANGELES -- National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered...

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Keeping a Roof Over Our Heads

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Public Housing, Charles Rangel, Homes, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Occupy Our Homes, Democrats, Charlie Rangel, Housing Crisis, Underwater Mortgages, Affordable Housing, Supbrime, Mortgage Relief, Subprime Mortgages, Freddie Mac, American Dream, Forclosure, Republicans, Short Sales, Housing Bubble, Video, Bv-Politics, Politics News
Rep. Charles Rangel

Congress must not let the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act expire at the end of the year. Today 12 million Americans are on the verge of losing their homes because they owe more money than their home is worth.

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Homes - Buy Now!

John R. Talbott | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Mortgages, Buying a Home, Home Prices, Homes, Houses, Housing Market, Business News
John R. Talbott

Run, do not walk to your neighborhood banker and either finance a new home purchase or take out the maximum amount of money he or she will lend you on a home equity loan and buy hard assets, not financial securities, with the money.

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State Farm Paid Out Billions In Weather-Related Claims

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Catastrophe Claims, Video, Hurricanes, Hail Storms, Homes, Allstate Corp, Cars, Wildfires, State Farm Insurance, Tropical Storms, Tornadoes, Business News

State Farm Insurance has paid $5 billion to its customers for weather-related catastrophes -- damage to cars, homes and other property so far this...

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Fewer Homeowners Put On Notice For Being Behind On Payments

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgages, Bank-Owned Properties, Housing Market, State Attorneys General, Homes, U.S. Homeowners, Mortgage Crisis, Banks, Federal Regulators, Realtytrac, Business News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of U.S. homeowners who were put on notice for being behind on their mortgage payments fell in May to the lowest level ...

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Home Sales Drop In April, Foreclosures Declined

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Home Buyers, National Association of Realtors, Condominiums, Housing Market, Homes, Houses, Home Sales, Mortgage Crisis, RealtyTrac Inc, Foreclosure, Business News

WASHINGTON — Fewer people purchased previously occupied homes in April, a troubling sign that the weak housing market remains a drag on the econ...

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Giving It All Away

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Long Island, Home Buyers, Economic Decline, Housing Market, Falling Home Prices, New York Real Estate, Homes, Economy, Home Prices, Business, Real Estate, Home Sellers, New York News
Lita Smith-Mines

I was chatting with a man who declared that he was withdrawing his home from the real estate market. Why? "I'm absolutely not giving my house away!"

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Construction Activity Down To Lowest Level In Over Decade

AP | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Housing Market, Bank Lending, Homes, Apartments, Construction Activity, Jobs, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Government Projects, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Builders started work on fewer homes, apartments and government projects in February, pushing construction activity down to the lowest l...

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Working Together to Build Homes for a Mexican Family

Dr. Jane Aronson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charity, Volunteering, Homes, Service, Homes of Hope, Mexico, Volunteer, Impact News
Dr. Jane Aronson

What better way to spend time with your child than to build a home?

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"Home, Sweetly Appraised Home"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Columnist, Daughter, Stamford Advocate, Money, Houses, Homes, Humor, Appraisals, Kitchen, Garage, Good Housekeeping, Clothes, Neighborhood, Pumpkin Pie, Wife, Home Improvement, Camera, Bedroom, Sons, Dog, Stamford, Pancho Villa, Bob Vila, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

In the nearly 13 years since my wife, Sue, and I bought our house, I have come to realize that a man's home is his hassle. That's because Sue frequen...

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Home Swank Home

Tess Ghilaga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cfda, Style, Homes, Living, Fashion Designers, Rima Suqi, Books, Style News
Tess Ghilaga

In her new book, American Fashion Designers at Home, style maven Rima Suqi takes you into the domiciles of more than 100 members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

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The Safest Neighborhoods In America

Wallet Pop | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Top Cities, Lowest Crime Rate, Atlanta, Homes, Safe Neighborhoods, Lowest Poverty Rate, Austin, Home, Housing Markets, Baltimore, Business News

Most Americans equate big cities with high crime -- New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals that even big c...

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5 Reasons Why Home Buyers Aren't Buying

Wallet Pop | Tara-Nicholle Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Buyers, Realestate, Foreclosures, Recession, Mortgages, Unemployment, Low Interest Rates, Foreclosure Freeze, Homes, Home Prices, Home Sales, Real Estate Marekt, Business News

Last week, the news broke that interest rates hit yet another low: 4.45% on a 30-year-fixed and a stunning 3.87% on a 15-year fixed rate loan. At the ...

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A Visit To A Loan Modification Marathon

FDL News Desk | David Dayen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Mortgages, Foreclosure Crisis, Loan Modifications, Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, Homes, Jamie Dimon, Foreclosure, Los Angeles, Home Loans, Naca, World-Cyber-Games-Los-Angeles, Business News

I walked through the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, past the marquee blaring the finals of the World Cyber Games, known as the Olympics of...

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Homesellers Reduce Prices For Fourth Straight Month

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trulia, Housing Prices, Housing Market, Table, Homes, Luxury Homes, Luxury Real Estate, Homeowners, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Business News

One in four U.S. home sellers reduced their asking prices in July, marking the fourth straight monthly increase in home price cuts, according to a new...

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Home Rise In May For Second Straight Month

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homes, San Diego, Homebuyer Tax Credit, IHS Global Insight, Home Prices, Home Sales, New Home Sales, Case-Shiller Index, Real Estate, Business News

NEW YORK — If you bought a home in San Francisco in the past year, it might feel like the housing slump is over. Bay area home prices have shot ...

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Foreclosures Boost Rental Site Listings

Bloomberg | Ari Levy and Dan Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Hotels, Airbnb, Rental Market, Homes, Craigslist, HomeAway.Com, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Bed and Breakfast, Business News

For Airbnb -- along with Craigslist and rival rental sites like HomeAway.com Inc. -- the threat of foreclosures is bringing a surge of listings. Local...

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Barefoot Bandit Mom, Pam Kohler, 'GLAD' Son Was Arrested Without Harm

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bahamas, Caught, Washington State, Homes, Crime, Colton Harris, Barefoot Bandit, Airplanes, Captured, Eleuthera, Pam Kohler, Arrest, World News

More than two years on the run, Colton Harris-Moore, aka the "Barefoot Bandit," was finally captured in the Bahamas, taken into custody after a high-s...

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Shipping Container Homes: 8 Innovative Designs

Mother Nature Network | Matt Hickman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Homes, Shipping Containers, Homes, Shipping Container Homes, Green News

The rise of innovative green architecture has created in increasingly in-vogue practice: rejiggering, stacking and linking rugged and versatile freigh...

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Volunteer Army Builds Home For Chicago Veteran

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: How to Build a Veteran a House, Support the Troops, Homes, Homes for Our Troops, Injured Veterans, How to Help Veterans, How to Contribute to Veterans, Veterans, Impact News

An Iraq War veteran who lost his legs in an explosion is getting a custom-built, wheelchair accessible house for free, thanks to the Taunton, Mass. ch...

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FDIC Fire Sale! 11 Homes For Under $10,000 (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Carlos Cagin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Slidehuge, Homes, Slidepoll, Cheapest Homes, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Cheap Homes, Failed Banks, Home Prices, Cleveland, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Detroit, FDIC Real Estate Sales, Foreclosure, Michigan, Subprime Mortgage, Business News

Need a cheap home? Just call the FDIC. During the housing crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company took over thousands of failed banks' soure...

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Strangest Homes On The Market (PHOTOS)

AOL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Real Estate Market, Houses, Homes, Real Estate, Home Sales, Business News

Oddball properties dot neighborhoods across the country--castle-like structures and homes built from lighthouses and bamboo. From a "residential commu...

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Australia Builds World's Largest Homes As U.S. Dwellings Shrink (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Australia Biggest House, Homes, Worlds Biggest House, Buildings, Houses, Mcmansion, Slidepoll, World News

The American McMansion has met its match. A new study reports that Australians now live in the world's largest homes, overtaking the U.S in the rankin...

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New American Dream: Default, Then Rent

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage, Loans, Default, Rent, Homes, Housing, American Dream, Housing Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News

People's increasing willingness to abandon their own piece of America illustrates a paradoxical change wrought by the housing bust: Even as it tarnish...

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