Real Estate and Housing (Residential)

As sea levels rise and natural disasters become more intense, homes in low-lying coastal areas or tinder-dry mountains are starting to lose value.That’s a problem for the finances of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored…

Eric Abrams struggles up the stairs with his cane, one step at a time.When he reaches the fifth floor, he ducks through a plastic zipper door and hobbles down the hall to his tiny, cluttered room. There is no water in his wash basin. He…

It’s official: A legal settlement that will rewrite the way many real estate agents are paid in the United States has received its final approval from a federal judge.Judge Stephen R. Bough of the Western District of Missouri on Tuesday…

The president of Douglas Elliman has been terminated, less than a week after the sudden retirement of Howard Lorber, the parent company’s chief executive officer.Scott Durkin’s exit was disclosed in a filing with the Securities and…

It was an audacious real estate project undertaken a decade ago by a Chinese developer: a $100 billion city in Malaysia built on sand and shrubby mangroves and sold as a luxury “dream paradise” for China’s middle class.Many of Forest…

Other agents are more skeptical, but they have had encounters that have made them think twice.Julie Brown, an agent in Marshall County, Ala., recently sold a house to a couple relocating from the Northeast. “Right after they bought it,…