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CoreLogic: Owners with home equity loans more than twice as likely to be upside down Inman NewsTM Homeowners with home equity loans are more than twice as likely to be "underwater" as those who didn't take cash out of their homes, according to statistics compiled by real estate and loan data aggr...

Do you really know the square footage of your home? Do youreally know if that room you use as a den could be considered a bedroom in case you want to sell? You're not alone. If you're listing a home for sale or about to make a home purchase, it's key to understand the details of a home listing, s...

Source: Washington Post As the scandal surrounding Congressman Anthony Weiner intensified this past week, Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, quietly took their New York co-op apartment off the exclusiveForest Hills Gardens real estate market. The couple had listed the Queens apartment with Madele...

Built in 1955, Zsa Zsa Gabor's Bel Air home has a hazy celebrity history. Gabor and her husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, have told the press that she purchased the home in the 1970s from Howard Hughes and that Elvis Presley also was a resident. Barbara Yobs, a California area mortgage banker ...

You may have a large master suite, fenced backyard and good schools on your home shopping list, but what about the name of the town you choose to live in? Forget living in Riverside, Fairview or Greenville. How about something a little more Peculiar, (Missouri) or maybe even Cool (California)? Th...

Buying a home can be stressful. There are so many questions to be answered and decisions to be made, such as where you should live, what can you afford, and how do you find a real estate agent. Eventually, a whole new set of questions start coming, like, what color should you paint the kitchen? T...

A housing trend that will continue to increase is renting. Renting can make financial sense for both the landlord and the tenant. Nearly 35% of occupied homes were rented out in 2010, that's opposed to 33.8% in 2000, according to census data compiled by USA Today. More than 500 cities have seen a...

  Last known photo of Huguette Clark, taken by Associated Press When Barbara Cleary ofChristie's International Real Estate was contacted to be the listing agent of Huguette Clark's 52-acre estate in 2005, she didn't know much about the home other than it was a "beautiful piece of property." Clear...

Source: People.com For Britney Spears, 2007 was not a good year. Recently divorced from Kevin Federline, or "K-Fed," Spears was attempting a come-back tour in the midst of a child custody battle, stints in and out of rehab and some heavy media attention after a self-inflicted buzz cut. It was al...

If you have ever applied for a mortgage, chances are at some point in the process you may have asked: Is all of this paperwork really necessary? After many years of working as a mortgage broker, consumers have commented to me that they find the paperwork confusing. And although I understand the r...