Repo agents say banks and lenders have been asking them to reclaim all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, small planes, snowmobiles, semi-trucks and, of, course, cars. Vehicle repossessions were up 10 percent in 2007 over the previous year, said Tom Webb, an

Guardian Management LLC, a Portland, Ore.-based real estate investment and management firm, through a newly formed corporation has acquired eight Southern California and Arizona offices of Irvine-based Sperry Van Ness, which has approximately 1,000 commer

Does reforming institutions always result in benefits to the system regardless of when and how they take place? Are some institutions more important than others? Elena Panaritis's debut work, Prosperity Unbound , not only answers these questions but tar

A real estate firm that made a big splash last year, Weichert Realtors Dean-Kelby, has left the Knoxville market. Weichert Realtors Dean-Kelby bought the well-known firm Heath Shuler Real Estate in February 2007, but Dean-Kelby has since pulled up stakes,

From the start of a housing recession that has sent average real estate prices in North County plummeting, some housing analysts said expensive neighborhoods would persevere, dodging steep declines. That's no longer true. Several homes in one of Nort