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What's The Future for Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae? A Small Finance Company In Boston May Have The Answer

Five years after the financial crisis, questions remain over what will become of Fannie and Freddie. So far, there are few answers.

Freddie Mac Failed To Pursue Defaulters For Recovery of Up To $4.6B In Shortfalls In Foreclosed Mortgage Properties

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Freddie Mac by failing to pursue thousands of foreclosed mortgages lost the opportunity to recover $4.6 billion in shortfalls.

Real Estate Investment For The Masses: Crowdfunding Or Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)?

Real estate investors may enjoy a new approach to investing, with real estate crowdfunding platforms.

Pssst? You Wanna Buy The Empire State Building? Here Are 8 Facts About The World's Most Iconic Building

Here’s your chance to own a portion of an icon: The firm that owns the Empire State Building is going public and will sell shares in the market.

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China's Luxurious, Newly Built 'Ghost' Cities: Oh-So Extravagant And Oh-So Empty

In several new communities, infrastructure and economic opportunities lag the pace of property development, making it difficult to attract residents.

Venezuelan Laws Forbidding Capital Flight Spur Caracas-Based U.S. Companies To Invest In Real Estate To Keep Profits Safe

Given capital controls, U.S. companies have turned to the safest asset possible to retain the value of their Venezuela-generated profits: real estate.

Participants via Hollenbeck PAL enjoying the Lath House built by Woodbury University students

In Los Angeles, Architects Find That Disadvantaged People Like Nice Buildings, Too

Increasingly, architects are employing their talents in making life better for poor or otherwise marginalized people.

Myanmar Property Taxes, Levied By The Government To Control Skyrocketing Real Estate Prices, Deemed Ineffective

The government's taxes to rein in the skyrocketing real estate prices are largely considered ineffective.

Jersey Shore Recovery Efforts Assessed At End Of Summer Season

Many analysts predicted that summer 2013 would be a complete washout for the post-Sandy Jersey Shore. So was it?

Myanmar Considering Property Taxes To Stabilize Skyrocketing Real Estate Market, Despite Experts Suggestion Not To Meddle

But are the taxes motivated by wanting to stabilize the market, or to fill government coffers?

Moving To Myanmar? 5 Factors About Myanmar Property Boom To Consider Before Hopping On A Plane

Myanmar's real estate market is experiencing an unprecedented boom, but do your homework before investing there.

A real estate sales sign sits outside of a house for sale in Phoenix, Arizona

Existing-Home Sales Rise Again In July, Keeping New Housing Boom Alive

The Realtors Ass'n reported that home prices continued to rise even as mortgage interest rates climbed to the highest in two years.

US Commercial Real Estate Development May Rebound Only In 2014: Report

Commercial real estate development lagged significantly in 2013 and traditionally picks up after the residential housing recovery.

Singapore Has Ambitious Plans To Revamp Its Landscape And Make The World's Best Airport Even Better

With a new city plan and an already amazing Changi International Airport, Singapore has ambitious plans.

Luxury Hotels In China In Slump Due To Austerity Measures, Slowing Economy And Oversupply

Anti-corruption measures, a slowing economy and oversupply are hurting China's luxury hotels.

Land Prices In Myanmar's Bago City Skyrocket Following Announcement Of Hanthawaddy International Airport

Following announcement of Hanthawaddy International Airport in the city, land prices in Bago are rising in a hurry.

Home Depot (HD) Earnings Preview Q2 2013: 20% EPS Jump As US Housing Recovery Boosts Same-Store Sales, More Efficient Supply Chain Trims Costs

Analysts expect revenue for the home improvement and hardware chain to increase 5.5 percent, up from a 2.1 percent a year ago.

Beijing Rooftop Villa To Be Demolished As New Suzhou Roof Building Investigated [PHOTOS]

The discoveries of illegal, lavish rooftop structures in China don't stop.

Buford, Wyoming, Smallest Town In US, Sold To Vietnamese Businessman, Set To Become Vietnamese Coffee Hub

The smallest town in the U.S. was sold to a Vietnamese businessman for $900,000.

Party Newspaper Criticizes China's Skyscraper Obsession

An official newspaper in China said a new obsession with towering buildings is only for vanity instead of function.

Myanmar's Elite Eager To Invest In Booming London Real Estate

Even as foreign investors become keenly interested in the country's booming real estate market, Myanmar's wealthy are taking their cash to London.

China's Illegal Construction: Beijing Villa Atop Apartment High Rise To Be Demolished [PHOTO]

Many of China's homes and buildings are constructed without the appropriate permits. This one certainly was.

Employees walk through the Citigroup headquarters in New York

Citigroup (NYSE:C) Settles Shareholder Dispute Over Mortgage Assets For A Final $590 Million

Citigroup shareholders had claimed in November 2007 that the bank misled shareholders about mortgage-backed assets.

American Homes 4 Rent Initial Public Offering (IPO) Aims To Raise $750 Million In Test Of Market's Interest In Real Estate Investment Trusts

If the IPO is successful, it may signal that investors are confident the U.S. housing market's recovery will continue.

US Foreclosure Rate Is Declining But Still More Than Double What It Was Before The Financial Crisis [Map]

55,000 foreclosured were completed in June 2013, more than double the 21,000-per-month average in 2007.

US Home Prices Rise 12.2 Percent In May, Best Yearly Gain Since March 2006

The benchmark Case-Shiller home price index, which jumped 12.2 percent in May, has posted monthly gains since February 2012.

Fabrice Tourre of Goldman Sachs prepares to testify in Washington

Lawyers For Goldman Sachs (GS) Ex-Trader Tourre Don’t Call Defense Witnesses in Civil Fraud Trial

The civil fraud trial centers around the role of Paulson & Co. in shaping a mortgage bond transaction, which the hedge fund bet against.

8 Injured In Philadelphia Explosion, Second Building Collapse Of The Summer

In southern Philadelphia, one person has been seriously burned and seven others have been hurt. No deaths have been reported.

Simon Property Group, Inc. (SPG) Q2 2013 Earnings Preview: REIT Will Report A Big Profit Increase On Higher Rents From Existing Mall Tenants

The opening of a big facility in Arizona and another in Japan, near Tokyo, will also boost Simon's second-quarter bottom line.

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