House Prices Soar
April Douglas The cost of building a home in Florida is on the rise. Industry officials say hurricanes are to blame for driving up the price, but that isn’t the only factor.
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Houston Missed the Boom, But Now It's Payback Time In the past decade, home prices here didn't soar like they did on the East and West coasts. Now, with much of the nation's housing market in retreat, it has
Stocks Downed by Housing Data Stocks finished lower Wednesday as a soft report on existing-home sales raised concerns that the economy might be more in danger of being derailed by a slowdown than by inflation.read
Deutsche Bank buys stake in Mexican mortgage provider (Banking Business Review) Deutsche Bank has completed its acquisition of a 49% interest in Fincasa Hipotecaria, a Mexican mortgage originator active in the low income social housing market in Mexico, from Ixe Grupo
Chopping Away at Wood Bart Jones, left, and Stephen Jones of Merlin Contracting stand over the foundation of a 20,000-square-foot home they are building in Southern Highlands.read more...
Brown slams door on second homes boost for pensions PENSIONS GORDON Brown yesterday dealt retirement savers a bitter blow when he scrapped plans to offer tax relief on residential property purchases in an 11th-hour U-turn on pensions reform.read more...
Your Next Home: Custom or Modular? In the past, any home that was built in a factory and not on site, was considered inferior, humble, unsafe and perhaps recalled images from the film "Deliverance." However, improved