Virtual Open Houses

The market seems to have pulled the rug out from under housing industry hopes for a sustained early recovery.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/YaOVbK7iIoc" height="1" width="1"/

Short sales are the hottest thing going in the distressed-property market, and the trend is expected to get even hotter in coming weeks, when the government starts handing out cash to encourage lenders to close these deals.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/-EqS7dmNonY" height="1" width="1"/

There's still time to get a 5% mortgage -- but the window is closing.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/2HxqOyRsx3Y" height="1" width="1"/

Sales of new homes fell to a record low in February, according to a government report released Wednesday, as the glut of foreclosed homes and a weak economy dampened the housing market.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/j2-EuURZPtg" height="1" width="1"/

President Obama's foreclosure prevention program will likely fall far short of its goals and may even do more harm than good, a government watchdog said Tuesday.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/U79m3E__P9A" height="1" width="1"/

The drama is nearly over. After a decade of extremes -- the ebullient highs of the real estate boom, then the devastating lows of the bust -- calmer forces are beginning to prevail in the housing market.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/r3PaYkWxwf8" height="1" width="1"/

Real estate prices in Santa Rosa, California are heading higher. What other cities are projected to enjoy home price gains in 2010?img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/ZkGLRpbcpKM" height="1" width="1"/

More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/Cktmw7x72nI" height="1" width="1"/

Living with an undersize, outdated kitchen? If so, a sledgehammer may feel like the only solution. But these days you're probably not up for spending the $50,000 or more -- maybe much more -- it would cost to demolish the space and build a new state-of-the-art room from scratch.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/_8hGwTATAeA" height="1" width="1"/

Economists have long been predicting commercial real estate could be the next day of reckoning for the financial markets, with a wave of defaults looming as billions of dollars in troubled loans come due in the coming months.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/money_realestate/~4/Q1QNfxwwM9g" height="1" width="1"/