The latest reports on home sales and prices offer a complicated and conflicted picture. But when the data are taken together, one thing is clear: Weighing risk and reward, it’s worth waiting a few months to see which way the re…
Almost a quarter of Americans and Canadians say they expect to work past the age of 70, and 6% say they’ll likely retire after their 80th birthday — two years longer than the nations’ life expectancy. That’s according to a rec…
Construction of Tiger Woods Dubai, a high-end residential complex that was to be built around a championship-caliber golf course, has been halted because of poor market conditions in the Middle Eastern emirate, Bloomberg News r…
Yet another problem has begun surfacing in the documents banks have been using to foreclose on homes: false notarizations. Notaries have been attesting legally to signatures they didn’t witness, sometimes by people who didn’t a…
On Monday, a group of institutional investors sued Countrywide and Bank of America over Countrywide’s mortgages practices. The bank is accused of issuing vast numbers of loans using methods that went beyond lax standards and in…