Far-flung exurbs hard hit by housing downturn
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While the housing downturn has  depressed once-thriving real estate markets around the nation,  far-flung suburbs of major cities have suffered the most abrupt  market correction.
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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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The finances of first-time home buyers are being stretched to record levels by rising house prices.
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As the ripple effect of the U.S. subprime-mortgage collapse spreads around world, boom times end.
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The nation's biggest financial firms, battered by huge losses in their mortgage businesses, are relying on an enigmatic source for cash: foreign governments in the Middle East and Asia.
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A record number of homeowners with high-cost mortgages have fallen behind on their payments or are facing foreclosure, a side effect of the growth in lending to people with poor credit, according to an industry group survey released yesterday.
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A downward spiral of falling house prices and reduced mortgage lending threatens the economy, an economist warns.
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Even borrowers with strong credit are feeling the pinch as home values fall and payments rise. Tuesday, several banks are expected to offer assistance to ease the burden.
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Lending conditions, borrowers' habits and regional economics make these areas more vulnerable to market downturns than others.
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It's hardest to buy a home in these 10 places, where owning property is out of reach for most of the population.
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Property investors smarting from this year's housing bust in the United States might do well to look farther afield -- even out of this world.
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There's an anxious face-off between sellers and buyers of homes as expectations of big profits fade
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An auction of foreclosed homes, many of them in fast-growing exurban and desert communities east of Los Angeles, brought out a crowd of potential buyers.
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Rocketing house prices have left many homeowners planning their retirement around the profits, a survey suggests.
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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Towns in need of inexpensive housing are turning to garage apartments, mother-in-law units and cottages in the backyard.
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There are signs that some high-end real estate developers are being hit by a slowdown.