Ad man Jerry Della Femina has created campaigns for companies from Meow Mix to Pan Am Airways. Now, he's pitching his sprawling East Hampton...

On the five-year anniversary of what many in New Orleans simply call "the storm," the city and its residents are still trying to rebuild...

Ike's Place, a popular sandwich shop in San Francisco's Castro district, narrowly avoided eviction this week. But just because the eatery is still open...

Angela Pruitt explains why some of the largest commercial-property owners are defaulting on debts and surrendering buildings worth less than their loans, just like...

Jerry Seib looks at how voters in several states across the country sent mixed signals about the strength of the anti-establishment wave and discusses...

Juliet Chung discusses developers of high-end vacation homes, which are building smaller, less expensive houses in resort communities as home sales slump in major...

1. Loyalty is overrated

For the growing number of struggling homeowners in this country, more help is on the way. Additional aid from the federal government will begin making...

Despite a recent spate of bad news coming out of the housing industry, home prices show signs of stabilizing.

Remember how everyone complained that banks weren't doing enough to help troubled borrowers?

Home improvement is one of the fastest-growing segments of e-commerce. But the consequences of a bad decision when it comes to finding a contractor or...

Fewer mortgage borrowers are delinquent on their loan payments, according to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The American home is shrinking. Toll the bell for the McMansion.

Stop me if you've heard this before. The housing market is still in shambles.

New home sales unexpectedly fell in July to the lowest level on record as the housing market continued to suffer from the end of the...

Homebuilder Toll Brothers made a profit last quarter -- its first in three years. And it largely has Uncle Sam's tax credits to thank for...

Plenty of forces, from overly cautious lenders to inaccurate appraisals, are wrecking real estate deals right now. But one of the biggest roadblocks to getting...

Treasury yields continued to fall Tuesday, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year note holding near a 19-month low, as a spate of dour economic...