Homebuilders slapped on solar panels and added other eco-friendly enhancements as energy prices soared earlier this year, hoping greener homes would lure reluctant buyers. Complete Story...
About 22 percent of the nation's nearly 16,000 nursing homes received the federal government's lowest rating in a new five-star system unveiled Thursday, while 12 percent received the highest ranking possible.
Homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. gave Wall Street a double-shot of discouraging news Tuesday: Its fiscal fourth-quarter loss more than tripled from a year ago and it expects to lose money throughout 2009.
Ski season's coming, and with it the traditional flurry of sales in second-home markets in mountain resort towns in the West.
The typical nursing home was cited for seven health and safety deficiencies last year, with for-profit homes more likely to have problems than facilities run by local governments or non-profits, federal investigators said Monday.
Home sales in California surged 13.6 percent in August as a flood of foreclosures drove down prices.
The number of new and resale homes sold during June and median prices, with annual percentage changes, in selected California counties:
California homebuyers sprung to life in July, pouncing on foreclosed homes and deeply discounted properties but largely ignoring pricier homes that have been languishing on the market, a research firm said Tuesday.
Beazer Homes USA Inc. said Friday it posted a narrower loss in its fiscal third quarter despite lower revenue as the homebuilder's expenses declined. The quarterly results fell short of Wall Street's expectations.
The discovery of mold in federally provided mobile homes sheltering Indiana and Iowa flood victims has prompted new anger and frustrations for those who have lost their houses.
Prefabricated houses don't have to be ticky-tacky.
Take a bow, Kyle Busch. He did exactly that after winning again Friday night. Busch added another Nationwide Series victory to his column Friday night, winning the Dollar General 300 at the Chicagoland Speedway.
As mortgage defaults and foreclosures continue to rise, the impact is spreading well beyond those who are losing their homes.
The U.S. has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes?
Patients hoping to get into nursing homes increasingly are signing away their rights to sue over poor care.
Median home prices dropped 26.7 percent in May across Southern California's six most populous counties compared with last year, a real estate research firm said Monday.
Home sales surged 22 percent in Southern California in April compared with March, as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures, a research firm said Monday.
A pick-up in sales of existing home earlier this week had some homeowners wondering if the steep housing slump may be coming to an end. But the latest data on new homes sales reported Wednesday indiciate that such optimism is premature and that this spring will likely be another washout for the residential real estate market.
The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on eliminating what once was a common practice.
The median price and annual percentage change of homes and condos sold in February in selected California counties:
Median home prices plunged in many of California's most populous counties in February, with Southern California leading the slide with an overall drop of 17.9 percent compared to a year earlier, according to new housing data released Thursday.
The fires that destroyed three luxury homes and damaged two others appear to have been started with "available combustibles," such as paper or wood, authorities said Tuesday, while still not ruling out that accelerants may have been used.
Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a Seattle suburb, apparently set by eco-terrorists who left a sign mocking the builders' claims that the 4,000-plus-square-foot houses were environmentally friendly.
What may be the cheapest rooms in Manhattan are made especially for squirrels. A self-appointed protector of squirrels has paid to have soft-pine boxes made for the critters and had them placed in trees at City Hall Park.
After initially resisting their disclosure, the Bush administration on Tuesday published the names of 131 nursing homes with poor inspection records and said some were already showing signs of improvement.
A Rancho Cordova house was leveled after an explosion on Wednesday afternoon. The blast took place at 1:40 p.m. on the corner of Paiute and Calle del Sol ways.
It's the worst-case scenario for home sellers: to endure price cut after price cut until their houses become stigmatized and hungry buyers smell blood.
New Neighborhood for Whites Only as recent as 2000.
"Tyler Perry's House of Payne" is running in the middle of the pack when it comes to cable sitcoms, but among the African-American audiences it targets, it tops anything else on television, reports Broadcasting & Cable.
West Fujian's Hakka people, a subgroup of the Han, migrated to South China during the Qin Dynasty and, to protect themselves from hostile locals, ingeniously constructed clusters of circular, fortress-like homes directly out of the elements.
A Miami activist who has been executing a bailout plan of his own around Miami's empty streets: He is helping homeless people illegally move into foreclosed homes.
Gov. Charlie Crist said on Monday that he is considering ordering a moratorium on home foreclosures, "especially during the holidays,"...
Fannie & Freddie say to be halting foreclosures during the Holidays between Nov 26 and Jan 9 for about 16,000 households to evaluate whether those mortgages can be modified.
This is just so sad. Seven Hundred Families a day are losing their homes. This video (12 mins) brings home the sheer tragedy of what it's like for the families affected. It's heartbreaking.
A homeless man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $101 million for starting two fires, including one that burned more than 163,000 acres in California two years ago. See more irresistible headlines
Southern Californians weathered a second straight day of devastation Saturday as wind-blasted wildfires destroyed hundreds of homes and shut down major freeways.
Thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and other parts of the US Gulf coast in 2005.
A brush fire destroyed at least 70 homes in the tony enclave of Montecito, forcing residents to evacuate what has long been a hideaway for the rich and famous.
Winter ushers in a season of sickness, but it is possible that germs aren't the only things that are making you and your family ill. Here are some items in and around your house that could be to blame.
When it comes to the housing meltdown, there are no stupid questions.
WATERBORO (Oct 31, 2008): Most people will tell you that in any good ghost story, no one really knows how much to believe and how much of the story is even true.
Residents of Cheyenne, Wyoming have been trapped in their homes by mounds of tumbleweeds which blew down from the high plains and blocking residents' doors and prompting a city cleanup project.
The Israeli army knocked down shacks in a West Bank village for the second straight day Thursday, leaving dozens of Palestinian Bedouin homeless, a United Nations official said.
Fire officials say a massive blaze that killed a woman and three children and spread to four other houses early Wednesday may have been caused by space heaters.
Long before she filed for bankruptcy, Ann Neukomm was "under water" -- she owed more on her mortgage than her house was worth -- a situation more and more Americans are finding themselves in.
At least 100 acres have burned in a wildfire that broke out Wednesday morning amid hot and gusty weather in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles.
Obama said that banks participating in the federal bailout should temporarily postpone foreclosures for families making good-faith efforts to pay their mortgage.
Authorities say firefighters backed by water-dumping helicopters and planes are gaining ground on a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest that has forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people.
:-) Homes are more or less worthless. Folks are losing their jobs. The recession word is being used ... alot.