In one of the first surveys conducted with nationals and expatriates since the real estate industry in the UAE took a downturn a month back, fully two-thirds of those polled feel that the current scenario will ultimately be to the end users' benefit.

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street's subprime-tainted securities harkens back to the real- estate bets that sparked the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s. The geography's the same, too.

With the current slump on mortgages in the country, many can’t help but fear to invest in anything that may involve purchasing or leasing real estate.

Shelby Morrow and millions of other young people have become the largely overlooked victims of a real estate crisis that's led to record foreclosures, sinking home prices and rising numbers of families straining to pay mortgage bills as adjustable-rate l

Another Mortgages Ltd. borrower filed a motion July 24 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court requesting that a Chapter 11 trustee be appointed to the case. The filing claims that new attorneys and leadership assigned and hired to represent the local commercial real es