More state REALTOR® associations are warning their members about a flood of suspicious phone calls that real estate agents are receiving from a man posing as a prospective buyer who then takes the conversation too personal.

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Average fixed-rate mortgages once again fell back to near 20-month lows, with 30-year fixed rate mortgages well-under 4 percent and 15-year rates below 3 percent.

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News Corp’s digital real estate service segments, which now includes realtor.com®, “certainly exceeded our expectations in traffic growth in recent weeks,” Chief Executive Robert Thomson said in an earnings conference call Thursday.

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In making rent or paying a mortgage, 52 percent of Americans say they’ve had to make at least one major sacrifice in order to make their payments, new research finds.

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The mortgage financing giant will be selling its iconic national headquarters in Washington, D.C., and redevelop property belonging to The Washington Post into its new home base.

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Earlier this week, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its list of the Top 10 States for LEED, the world’s most recognized green building rating system.
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