Below are the latest real estate news headlines for buyers and sellers.

Home buying at most affordable level in decades
Buying a home has reached its most affordable level in more than two decades.Read Article
Thu, 17 May 2012 11:16:09 EDT

The Facebook effect on San Francisco real estate
The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.Read Article
Thu, 17 May 2012 12:50:12 EDT

Mortgage rates hit record low again
Buying a home just got even cheaper as interest rates on both 30-year and 15-year-fixed-rate mortgages set record lows for the third week in a row.Read Article
Thu, 17 May 2012 12:09:44 EDT

Foreclosures fall to lowest level since 2007
Foreclosure filings in April fell for the third straight month to the lowest level since July 2007.Read Article
Thu, 17 May 2012 11:18:48 EDT

BofA offering up to $30K for short sales
Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.Read Article
Tue, 15 May 2012 18:37:33 EDT

Mortgage delinquencies drop to 4-year low
The percentage of borrowers who have dropped behind on their mortgage payments fell to a four-year low in the first three months of 2012, a bankers' group said Wednesday.Read Article
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:21:50 EDT

George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan
The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area's residents thwarted the plan.Read Article
Wed, 16 May 2012 07:56:47 EDT

Park Ave. co-op sells for record $52.5M
A recent sale in New York's famed 740 Park Avenue apartment building marked the highest price ever paid for a co-op in the city's history.Read Article
Tue, 15 May 2012 14:18:15 EDT

Housing: The one bailout America could really use
Laurie Goodman is an apolitical number cruncher who has spent most of her 28-year career out of the public view, studying the minutiae of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) for big investment banks. She's long been a star among Wall Street insiders, however. She holds the record for the most top rankings for fixed-in-come research from the trade bible Institutional Investor.Read Article
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:20:23 EST

Unique home in the Jersey woods
One of America's most flamboyant private residences lies in the woods of northwest New Jersey. It's the personal vision of artist and craftsman Ricky Boscarino and reflects his eccentric world view.Read Article
Fri, 11 May 2012 11:12:20 EDT