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Lakefront Montana
This nearly five-acre property in Bigfork features cabins made using the property's trees and recycled materials from nearby homes and barns. There's also an organic cherry orchard.
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Purchase Mortgage Applications Post Largest Rise Since May
The anemic housing market showed a few signs of life last week, with near-record low mortgage rates boosting new home-purchase applications.
Housing Inventories Rise for Eighth Straight Month
Housing inventories rose in many U.S. cities for the eighth straight month in August in a sign of the continued headwinds facing a soft housing market.
Advice for Foreign Home Buyers
It's a very straightforward process if you pay all-cash. If you need a mortgage, the process will be challenging.
An Ad Man's $35 Million Pitch
Jerry Della Femina tries to unload his large oceanfront Hamptons home.
- Photos: Femina's Hamptons Home
- Video: Beach-Front Living in East Hampton
Paramount Chief Sells in L.A. for $21.5 Million
Brad Grey's Pacific Palisades initially listed about a year ago for $29.9 million, but most recently asked $24.5 million. Also, a Napa Valley estate with a lake asks $20 million.
- See photos of the properties
SmartMoney: Co-Op Fees Rising
A jump in property taxes has forced a rise in co-op maintenance fees, SmartMoney reports.
Builder Bummer: Big Land Auction Cancelled
Today we wrote about the excitement surrounding a big California land auction that was set for Thursday. Well, the bidders should just stay home.
One Michigan County Offers Free Land
Muskegon County in Michigan is bartering land for jobs as its unemployment rate soars past the national average.
S'mores, Anyone?
Three homes with outdoor fireplaces for under $3 million in Hawaii, Chicago and Georgia.
- Photos: Tour the homes
Home Price Reports Don't Show Declines (Yet)
When reading Tuesday's report on home prices from the S&P/Case-Shiller index, use caution.
Paying Off the House in 15 Years
A growing number of homeowners are choosing to pay down their mortgages at a faster rate--even if it means a substantial jump in their monthly payments.
- Readers React: '15-year mortgages are way to go'
Tiny New House, Old Kyoto Soul
In Japan, a curved structure is meant to be true to the spirit of traditional homes
- Photos: Kyoto Small
Gardening Without a Sprinkler
The perfect lawn has met its match. Homeowners, in a quest to save money—and water—are trading in clipped hedges and putting-green turf for landscaping closer to what might have grown there in the first place.
- Photos: Giving Up On Grass
Wells Fargo 'Party House' Sold at 30% Off
A couple has paid nearly $15 million for the bank-owned Malibu beach house that made waves last year for allegedly being used as a party house by a Wells Fargo executive.
Is Contractor Legit?
After a recent hailstorm caused roof damage, contractors have been swarming around a Buffalo homeowner. June Fletcher offers advice on how to screen out the scammers.
Media Mogul Malone Buys New Mexico Ranch
Homes with Saltwater Pools
Solar Panels and Resale Value
Home With Presley Ties Lists
Lakefront Homes, Under $1 Million
Green, With a Twist
Living History in Nantucket
Long Island Deal of the Week: Half of a House
The Shrinking Second Home
Taking a Bath on Your Pool
Free-Range Landscaping
Michael Jackson Mansion Listed, $10 Million Price Cut
Atlanta's Pink Elephant Finally Sells, $25 Million Off
Indian Home Buyers Struggle with Bubble
Joey Fatone Home Up for Auction
A Glass House in Farm Country
Dive Into Pool Repairs?
Housing Bust Benefits Subsidized Tenants
Michael Graves: Miami Twice
Dr. Phil Buys in Beverly Hills
Fighting Foreclosure with Cornbread
'Real Housewife' Teresa Giudice's Auction Goes Global
Living in a Barn
Setting a Rental Price
Long Island: Nice Place To Build, If You Dare
Howie Gelbtuch Is a Mini-Donald Trump
Doubling Down on Housing
The Joy of Emptiness
Court Appointments
Where a Magician Disappears
Pritt Relists for $49.6 Million
How We Sold a House
Arts-and-Crafts Time
Need to Sell Your House? Cut the Price
Homes for Car Collectors
Folk Rock and Fine Bordeaux
Cookie Magnate Seeks Buyer in Aspen
Open House Theft: Who Pays?
Paul Allen's Malibu
Walker's Guide to Home Buying
Charity Joins Top Home Builders' Ranks
Should I Fight a Low Appraisal?
A Downtown Guy's Uptown Pad
Good Schools, Bad Real Estate
Homes with Pools
Mottola Asks $27.5 Million for Ranch
David Siegel's Unfinished Mansion Raises the Bar on Excess
Reasonable Closing Costs
Alternatives for Stymied Seller
Home-Buyer Psychology Changes, Fuels Rental Market
Where the Rich Live in India
Homes with Outdoor Kitchens
Hill and McGraw Sell Home for $9.55 Million
A Crime Writer's Sunny Spot
A Shore Thing
From Medieval Ruin to Serene Retreat
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Builders Return to Florida
Estate of Grace
Glass Menagerie
When Gardens Get Personal
Under Another Tuscan Sun
Crichton's Hawaii, For Sale
Music, Art and Space
Gourmets Down the Road
Alpine Mega Mansion: Most Expensive Home, Most Expensive ZIP Code
Cisneros: Profiteers, Not Government, To Blame for Housing Crisis
Mad About Blue in the Garden
Oh, Canada! What We Could Learn From Your Mortgage Market
Chinese Drywall Issues Known in 2006
Fun and Games
Luxury Sales Bounce Back

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Homes In Private Clubs
Three homes in private club communities, in Spring Island, S.C., Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and Palm Desert, Calif., priced under $1 million.
- Photos: Homes in Private Clubs
The World's Most Expensive Dishwasher
The Brownstone Diarist pays a steep price for switching the plans for the kitchen in her Harlem renovation.
Commercial
Hotels Poised to Shed Properties
With the U.S. hotel market recovering, some of the country's largest hotel companies are ready to resume their efforts to divest themselves of real estate.
Hammerson Redeploys in Search for Growth
The U.K. office and retail REIT's strategy is to sell mature properties in order to raise cash for new investments.
Builders Walk Away From Land Deals
Some home builders are re-examining land contracts, asking sellers for lower prices or abandoning deals entirely.
New York
Williamsburg Townhouse Makeover
This Williamsburg townhouse was completely renovated and converted into an owner's triplex with two additional rental units—but not without complications.
Tenants Seek to Block Building Sale
Residents of 47 apartment buildings in East Harlem have a long history of squabbling with their landlords over issues like repairs, heating and infestations. They say a prospective owner isn't up to the task.

Developments

Purchase Mortgage Applications Post Largest Rise Since May
The anemic housing market showed a few signs of life last week, with near-record low mortgage rates boosting new home-purchase applications.
Real Estate News: Hotels Poised to Shed Properties
Omni’s Potent Play
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Buying & Selling

Trump Place Conversion
The owner of this Trump Place condo on the Upper West Side combined two units to create an art-filled 2,500-square-foot home.
Paul Fireman Lists Nevada Ranch
30-Year Mortgage Rate: 4.32%

Second Homes

Tough Love, Garden Style
Columnist Bart Ziegler doesn't have the time or inclination to coddle plants. Here are some trees and shrubs that thrive even under benign neglect.
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Guardian Life, Lowe Team Up
Politically Incorrect Gardening

Home & Garden

A Fashion General's Bunker
Order rules at the Park Avenue home of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the first-ever fashion director of Lincoln Center.
Ten Ways to Save Money by Going Green
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Commercial

Foreclosure Filed on Ritz Kapalua
The estate of bankrupt securities firm Lehman Brothers has filed court papers to foreclose on Hawaii's Ritz-Carlton Kapalua resort, continuing the carnage in that state's hotel sector.
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Simon Closes Purchase of Prime Outlets
Commercial Property Owners Choose to Default

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Home Buyer Tax Credit Price Tag: $22 Billion
The total estimated cost of the home buyer tax credits is about $22 billion, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office last week.
J.P. Morgan's Dimon Slashes Home Price
In what might be labeled a fire sale, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has chopped the asking price for his Chicago home by more than 25%.
As Foreclosures Trickle Up, Hamptons Home Goes to Auction
A Hamptons home heads for the auction block as foreclosures trickle up.
Serial Killer's Former California Home Sells
Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams got a killer deal in the foreclosure auction for their new Sacramento home.
'Hellstrip,' Gardening's Final Frontier
The often-neglected strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk is getting a makeover.
- Photos: Gardeners Go to the 'Hellstrip'

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