CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- As soaring home prices set the stage for America's great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal -- the real estate appraisal -- was undermined from within.

The black-tie party at Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel seemed a fitting celebration of the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s: filet mignon and lobster, a champagne room and hundreds of mortgage brokers, real estate agents and their custome

FREEPORT — Members of the city’s Residential Housing Authority Board, have revealed a rough plan they believe can help fix housing issues throughout the county by combining the efforts of local governments and agencies.

While Mad Men paints an eye-poppingly accurate portrait of the Manhattan advertising industry’s love of the louche in the ’60s-where men were men, women (that is, secretaries) slept with their bosses and the Scotch flowed freely-much of it is a relic

MADISON — Three municipalities did not break the state's open records law when they refused to give a real estate listing service access to a computer database, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said today.