With a Whisper, Cubaâs Housing Market Booms
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Virtually every square foot of this capital city is owned by the socialist state, but the people of Havana are as obsessed with real estate as, say, condo-crazy New Yorkers.
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As dozens of condominium towers conceived during Floridaâs real estate boom near completion, investors who snatched up units are trying to break contracts.
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Now that Fidel Castro has retired, many Cubans are looking to his brother to let more people open businesses, own homes and even travel abroad. But it will probably fall to a new generation of leaders to ultimately fulfill or frustrate their dreams of prosperity.
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Texas as a whole is booming, but across the stateâs outermost exurbs, formed by waves of new housing, building has ground almost to a halt.
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While most of the Massachusetts housing market is slumping, one sliver is booming: million-dollar properties.
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Stocks soared on the move, a forceful policy shift intended to limit the economic damage from the disorder in the housing and credit markets.
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As the housing boom continues, housing stocks are reporting record earnings. Neither is sustainable.
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Hammered by hurricanes in recent years, Pilar Benitez and thousands of other Floridians are coming face-to-face with the dark side of the U.S. housing boom.
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The hard-charging homebuilding stocks are making believers of some investors.
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Houses and condominiums with price tags of $1 million or more are still changing hands robustly in some of the most exclusive areas.
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Sliding home prices are bringing out buyers in Greater Boston, increasing sales, reducing inventories, and even reviving bidding wars in some communities.
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Not everyone has suffered from the current housing slump. Exceptions include entrepreneurs with deep experience in real estate and those who have carved out a special niche.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A robust housing market and higher prices for building materials, labour and land pushed up prices for new houses across the country in August, says Statistics Canada.
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As mortgage defaults rise, more houses are being put up for auction -- and more people are seeing a chance to make big bucks. But there are risks
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Real estate in New York City has a way of looming large in matters of the heart.
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U.S. real estate investors are heading  south of the border, putting their money in an array of  projects and properties they believe will generate attractive  returns from Mexico's growing economy.
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Some economists warn the market's fate hinges largely on mortgage rates because low interest rates are the reason buyers have been able to continue to afford ever-increasing home prices here.