Will U.S. principal-reduction programs will help the real estate market? Our residential real estate insiders weigh in on this month's Housing Huddle topic.
An Arizona judge has heard two dozen complaints against a now-defunct San Diego company that home appraisers in that state say failed to pay them in a timely manner or at all for completed work.
Leroy Schecter's Miami Beach estate asks $45 million; Blaine Trump lists a Millbrook, N.Y., home for $17.5 million; a Ocala, Fla., equestrian estate goes on the auction block.
Asking $6.5 million, this property sits in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, near the top of the country's South Island. It includes 55 acres of grapes, producing Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Fannie narrowed its search for a new chief executive to two finalists and could soon offer the position to Timothy Mayopoulos, the mortgage-finance company's general counsel and lead candidate.
Lehman Brothers has struck a deal to buy the 26.5% stake that it doesn't already own in apartment giant Archstone for $1.58 billion, giving competing bidder Sam Zell's Equity Residential $150 million.