Resort living: Town, detached homes in Lewes

Winter blues hitting you hard this year? Maybe it's time to consider purchasing a getaway vacation home, someplace near the ocean and yet in a charming town with plenty of appeal even when the weather isn't cooperating with a beach day. If this scenario appeals to you, Canary Creek, a ...

Ready to Buy: Tips Help Pave Way to Purchasing a Home

Even with the scars left by the housing mess, home ownership is still a goal for many Americans. If you vowed to make your home ownership dream come true in 2012, it's time to get started. Indeed the timing may be ideal. Housing market observers say that prices appear to have bottomed out in many markets, and mortgage rates are at their lowest point ever.

The Short Sale: Prohibited Practice Could Help Solve Foreclosure Crisis

Housing investors and advocates are embracing a new strategy to keep struggling borrowers in their homes: Purchasing houses from homeowners who can no longer afford to pay the mortgage, then leasing the property back to the previous owner at an affordable rent.

Business briefs

U.S. manufacturing grew in January at the fastest pace in seven months, boosted by a rise in new orders. And builders ended a poor year for construction by spending more on homes and projects for the fifth straight month. The reports bolster other data showing the U.S. economy started the year strong. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing managers, said Wednesday that ...

Forget Year of the Dragon, 2012 is the Year of the Landlord

DALLAS, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  HomeVestors , the professional home buying network of independently owned and operated franchisees that is the number one buyer of houses in the U.S., agrees with ...