The REALTOR® Nationwide Open House event takes place April 28 and 29, and real estate professionals are preparing to open the doors to buyers and sellers across the country with thousands of open houses. 

"We believe 2012 could be a record year for short sales," says a vice president of RealtyTrac.

Living near the best public schools can bump up your home values. A new study from Brookings Institution finds how much of an impact it can have.

Real estate agents earned a place on U.S. News and World Report's recent compilation of the best business jobs, alongside such other professions as human resources specialists and meeting, convention, and event planners.

After reaching or hovering near all-time lows last week, fixed-rate mortgages edged up slightly. 

A gay-friendly affordable housing development is scheduled to break ground in the fall in Philadelphia, noted as the first of its kind to be financed completely with public money.

While February existing-home sales dipped slightly from January, many other indicators rose, pointing to strong fundamentals.

"Simply permitting home owners to stay in their homes for five or six hundred days or longer while not paying their mortgages, costs neighborhoods, costs lenders and, ultimately, costs taxpayers and future borrowers," testified an FHFA  spokesman at a House panel this week.

Foreclosures continue to weigh on several real estate markets, despite drops over the last few months in foreclosure filings in some of these hard-hit states. 

Banks have been making big strides in getting sour commercial real estate loans off their books, and are even starting to increase their lending in the sector.

Oprah has been known to have the magic touch in getting products sold, and apparently that extends to real estate too.

Does a quickly draining phone battery keep getting the best of you while on the job? The free mobile apps you use may be to blame, according to a new study. 

Expect more lenders to agree to short sales this year as it increasingly becomes banks' prefered method for handling properties in default, rather than letting the homes fall into foreclosure.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Wednesday that the economy is improving, and the Fed plans to carry on with its policy of holding key interest rates low -- at least for now.

After posting steep fourth quarter losses, and depending on how a disagreement with Bank of America plays out, the government-sponsored enterprise says it may need more federal aid. 

The state has been bogged down by a backlog of foreclosures stuck in its court system, but a new bill hopes to change that. 

With mortgage rates continuing to hover around all-time lows, mortgage applications for purchases soared more than 8 percent last week, while applications for refinancing dropped 2.2 percent during the same period. 

Sales to international investors represent a huge opportunity for real estate practitioners in the U.S., where domestic purchases have slumped due to tight lending conditions.