Tougher rules for estate agents
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House buyers and sellers will be given clearer information by estate agents as a firmer code of conduct is introduced.
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Lawyers, accountants and other professionals who offer tax advice must meet stricter ethical standards under guidelines issued by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service on Friday.
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Rules covering work on listed buildings may have to be changed because of climate change, conservationists say.
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The boss of the US's biggest housebuilder warns that his firm will struggle amid a wider housing market slowdown.
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Business & money: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests loophole in rules means that homeowners could avoid providing a pack.
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A buyer's agent can help. So can a few other smart moves.
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Pledging to crack down on &quot;back-room deals&quot; in the insurance industry, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi yesterday moved to block agents and brokers from steering clients to
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With prices falling, home sellers might have to accept lower prices than they had hoped for, while buyers might find it tougher to qualify for a mortgage.
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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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Sellers worry that their costs will rise and they will have less protection against malicious buyers.
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A new SEC rule may not solve all your woes with brokers.
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Property stocks came under pressure on Friday after a leading broker warned clients that now was not the time to venture back into the sector.
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Turmoil at Fannie Mae calls for a stronger, more exacting regulatory hand, but the zeal for reform should not eclipse the financial institution&#39;s singular mission: providing low- and moderate-income Americans with entree into home ownership.
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At a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday, legislators and consumer advocates prodded federal banking regulators to move more quickly to put restrictions on non-traditional mortgage lending, because, they said, the new kinds of mortgages may place borrowers and lenders at financial risk.
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Bank regulators tightened standards for mortgage lending on Friday in a bid to curtail risky practices that have been blamed for a record level of foreclosures.
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Advice on the amount of force householders can use against burglars is being published in efforts to stop confusion.
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Experts are to encourage local authorities  to toughen up their approach to tackling anti-social behaviour.