The House of Representatives today joined the Senate in approving legislation that would expand and extend into next spring an $8000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. Existing home buyers will get $6500 home buyer tax credit.

IAS360 Indicates Some Return To Normalcy In Nation’s Hardest Hit Markets

Ads about Mortgage Rates are everywhere. You cannot go onto your computer without seeing ads from several different lenders and the television is full of ads touting their mortgage rates or the fact that rates are way down.

Here is a very good surprise in the housing marketing. Existing home sales rose unexpectedly from January to February as buyers took advantage of bargain-basement prices.

New York Housing Authority has unveiled new ways of making your rent payment allowing renters to pay by phone and by electronic means for their rent in NYC.

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company owner says live in, build, and sell really tiny houses to beat the economic hard times. Eighty kilometers north of San Francisco in northern California is a rural community called Sebastopol, Jay Shafer, founder of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, lives and works there in his tiny home.

The editorial in this month's PLoS Medicine examines how the health needs of the homeless are underrepresented in the medical literature, leading to the failure of health and social systems to address them.

While the residents are waiting for the DDA Delhi Housing Scheme 2008 results from Delhi Development Authority that are to come out Tuesday, 9,800 houses for slum dwellers ready for allotment in Delhi.

IAS360 House Price Index shows bright spots at the individual county level with 75 of the 360 counties showing month to month improvement in September

IAS360 House Price Index Reports a National Decline of 0.2% for August

It is a great shame that the most creative professional group in the building trade, the architects, rarely apply themselves to existing housing. A large proportion of the Netherlands’ climate targets will after all have to be achieved within existing housing. This is one of the messages to be conveyed by Prof.

The legislation required to implement the Market Octavia Plan was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on its first reading yesterday, paving the way for much anticipated new housing and infrastructure improvements in the plan area. The Market Octavia Plan is a culmination of an 8 year effort by the City and the affected neighborhoods.