Lots of housing industry folks credit the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit with keeping the real estate market afloat this summer, even spurring a bump in sales in the last few months.

Now they’re beating the drum to extend it.

Lawmakers are starting…

Perhaps it was inevitable. After all, houses up for sale have had their own dedicated websites and blogs for some time now.

But it was a first (for me anyway) when I happened upon the Twitter feed of 124 Roxbury, in O’Fallon,…

Here’s a way to buy one square foot of Maui and get the accompanying purchase document you might put with your star registry www.starregistry.com, which is held down by your pet rock.

According to a news release, real estate broker Froyam Edel…

When times are tough, we might tend to put off paying a couple of bills. Businesses do the same thing–to other businesses.

Most likely to get stiffed are businesses related to the construction and real estate industries, according to a new…

An interesting article in today’s Seattle Times highlights a scheme that allegedly involves a group of perspective home buyers being bilked by desperate developers.

The group of home buyers is filing a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase Bank and a developer, the story says,…

In case you missed it, the U.S. Green Building Council gave out several first-time awards for green building projects at the end of 2008 for its first Homebuilder’s Day.

One of the winners of those awards - the Live Green, Live Smart Institute…

The amount of vacant industrial real estate in St. Louis was down at the end of 2008, according to Colliers International. The real estate giant reported this week that St. Louis was among 12 cities out of 54 surveyed that…