Gates Knocks Foundation Out Of Housing
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has dumped all of its shares in seven home builders.
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Graham Gund has been busy creating a headquarters for the National Association of Realtors in Washington, D.C., dealing with a lawsuit involving his part-ownership of many of the buildings in the South End loft district known as SoWa, and settling into the Cambridge house that he built -- tore down -- and built again.
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As defaults surge, the stodgy Federal Housing Administration proves its worth.
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A burgeoning scandal at America&#39;s second-largest financial institution that threatens to undermine the US housing market has seen two top executives forced out.
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The General Assembly overreacted to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that unreasonably expanded eminent domain powers.  A bill on its way to Gov. Tim Kaine's desk goes too far in restricting those powers.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Giant sections were taken out of roads where the earth had given way to rushing water beneath the concrete...
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A proposal by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish four public housing complexes in New Orleans has touched a raw nerve.
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SEATTLE - Real estate information start-up Zillow Inc. said late yesterday it closed a $30 million round of financing.
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The steep slump in housing intensified at the end of last year, pushing home construction down by the biggest amount in nearly three decades.
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A quiet couple in Berkeley, California, got sick of being ignored by the system. So they built a new one. How MoveOn.org changed the face of fund raising, brought P2P to political advertising and reinvented grass-roots activism. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine.
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The home improvement chain has finally sold off its HD supply unit to a private equity group.
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FLATS PLAN BLOCKED PLANS to build 24 flats in Douglas have been blocked. Turvey Homes Ltd applied (04/1526) for detailed permission to develop land next to Laureston Manor, Lower Dukes Road, in July.
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The listing of the worldâs largest real estate investment trust (Reit) by Hong Kongâs Housing Authority descended into chaos on Monday after the agencyâs lawyers admitted
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The nation's largest workplace charity drive -- the Combined Federal Campaign conducted in government offices -- has tossed out a key rule, and that has prompted protests and appeals to members of Congress from nonprofit groups.
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The collapse of the fabled Levitt & Sons, the first big home builder to fail in the current slump, illustrates how the real estate turmoil is spreading far beyond subprime borrowers.
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Hard-up house owners are ending up homeless after selling their homes to property companies.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday that chairman Bill Gates will stop taking a day-to-day  role in the software giant he founded in order to do more work  with his charitable foundation.