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The number of homes under contract to be sold fell 4% in November, according to a report released Tuesday.

You're sniffling and wheezing your way through another winter. A run of bad luck with germs? Sure, but it also may be the result of something more insidious: toxins.

Home prices in Manhattan held up remarkably well in the fourth quarter, despite the economic crisis.

From California to D.C., falling home prices and cheaper mortgage rates helped these families to become homeowners.

Question: I'm refinancing my mortgage, and my lender tells me that I need to get a new title insurance policy, which will cost more than a thousand dollars. We haven't made any changes to our home, and there aren't any outstanding liens on the property. Is there any way around this fee?

Q. Were you wrong to be so bullish?

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Rates on mortgage loans are the lowest in the 37-year history of the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, according to a weekly report released Wednesday.

Home prices posted another record decline in October, falling 18% in October compared with a year earlier, according to a closely watched monthly report released Tuesday.

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Low interest rates are fueling a mortgage refinance frenzy as homeowners rush to lower their payments.

That lenders are ramping up their attempts to help troubled home borrowers stay in their homes is the good news.

The number of existing homes sold during November plummeted 8.6% as prices plunged by record amounts, according to a closely watched housing industry report issued Tuesday.

Some 2.2 million at-risk homeowners will receive foreclosure-prevention help this year, according to an industry report issued Monday, with the number expected to rise to more than 3 million in 2009.

The housing market hasn't bottomed out yet. Of the top 100 markets, here are 10 with the worst forecasts.

Mortgage rates fell this week, with the 30-year fixed mortgage sinking to its lowest rate in 37 years as the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to historic lows.

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Mortgage rates fell again this week, following the government's efforts to assist the troubled housing market.

Housing permits and starts fell to record lows in November, the government said Tuesday, in the latest sign that the housing market is continuing its decline.

American homeowners will collectively lose more than $2 trillion in home value by the end of 2008, according to a report released Monday.