A 50 percent stake of itself to a real estate investment firm has been sold by Boston Realty Advisors, a brokerage that handles upscale and occasional high-profile properties.

Charles Thibault, the Corzen market analyst who conducted the detailed, county-by-county analysis said that they do see significant decline in asking prices in certain counties, where the volume of available properties online has increased as much 400 percent. Corzen's monthly survey is based on a ZIP code-by-ZIP code analysis of homes listed online at www.realtor.com. The survey does not include actual sales prices.

Lennar's Martin's Crossing development has been alleged of inferior construction by Mike Morgan Stuart. Morgan narrated a client hired a home inspector shortly before he was to close on a Lennar home, and the inspector found an improperly installed roof and other problems.

Federal officials worry that many banks are carrying more real estate loans today than during the 1980s boom as commercial real estate sales and construction surge across the country

The running water and the sounds it creates proves to be so calming that some people listen to the CD sounds of a babbling brook while in their cars. Others have fancy alarm clocks that waken them with melodic strains of a small river rolling over rocks.

The Danville area's residents feel the pain of selling out because of the nation's lowest median house price.

On Thursday. Republican efforts to repeal the estate tax were rejected by the senate, depriving the GOP of a chance to put the issue immediately onto the Senate's election-year agenda.

A web application known as the Real Estate Development Database has now been launched by the Planning Department, working in conjunction with the Information Technology Department

The mortgage company, Freddie Mac reported that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.62%, down from 6.67% last week. That could have been the highest level in nearly four years.

The monthly results for May's home sales Thursday released by the Manatee County Property Appraiser's Office, and the recent weakness of that market continues, although prices rose in the past year.

Blackstone Group has raised roughly $5 billion for its fifth general real estate fund, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, more than double the size of its previous fund.

Start up costs of between 8% and 10% of assets would be incurred because of the launch of any new UK Real Estate Investment Trust. This would render new launches unfeasible according to the Association of Investment Trust Companies.