Real Estate News

Sales of existing homes rose 0.6 percent in April to an annual rate of 4.97 million units.

Stocks are moving higher Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it was too soon for the central bank to pull back on its economic stimulus programs.

Mark O'Donnell usually books his family's summer vacation in January. For the last dozen years, that meant reserving an oceanfront house for a week in Long Beach Island, a quiet cluster of beach towns on the New Jersey shore.

While the residential real estate market is generally believed to be improving nationwide, some of the residual effects of the Great Recession still affect the ability of real estate agents to facilitate home sales.

In this Tuesday, April 2, 2013, photo, Sam and Liz Weidner, of Hudsonville, Mich., view a home for sale in Lowell, Mich.

In December, retired Coast Guard commander Dennis Zecca was arrested by federal agents in Marathon.

"I'm always the first one in," brags the 28-year-old broker at Nest Seekers International, a boutique real estate brokerage firm.

The new low inventory, though, involves the number of traditionally-marketed homes for sale and available lots to put them on.

"We've charged him with stalking. His bond is $50,000," said Detective Billy Butler with the Manchester P-D. Green is accused of using a Homes magazine to target more than 20 female real estate agents in at least three counties dating back to last year.

New York City's commercial real estate industry is edgy over the possibility of the government yanking what has come to be known as terrorism insurance, the New York Post reported.

In part one of our blog on Tips for Picking a Great Real Estate Agent, we looked at Experience, Education, Market Knowledge, and Honesty and Integrity.

Camara Inmobiliaria Argentina president Roberto Arevalo said today that "no owner is willing to receive the certificate of deposit called CEDIN for dollars." "Since money laundering took place we had concerns that the regulation is clear and simple, with a legal framework that can restore confidence for what happened .

A former Coromandel real estate agent who forged his clients' initials on a document has been fined $700, a fraction of the penalty he could have faced under new legislation.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc took a big step on Monday in its plan to expand into energy, when Plains Exploration & Production Co shareholders approved the miner's $6 billion takeover deal, sweetened by two special dividends.

Aucklanders are looking as far away as Hamilton to buy homes as more people find themselves squeezed out of their local real estate market.

The death toll from a mine tunnel collapse in eastern Indonesia has risen to 21, the American operator said, as rescuers searched for another seven workers now also presumed dead.

Thompson Block owner Stewart Beal provided a rendering of what the Thompson Block site will look like by the time construction is completed.

As Realtors enter the peak home selling season, Terry Westbrook, president of the Grand Rapids Association of Realtors has one complaint.

Sales of existing homes in April surged again in the Indianapolis area. Sales jumped 18.7 percent, to 2,629, from the same month a year ago in the 13-county metro area, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors said.

Kim Gifford stands in her Danbury office at Coldwell Banker in Danbury Thursday, Jan.