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Whether you're living in a small space because of financial limitations, family size or are at a transitional period in your life, Andy Suvalsky knows how to turn a small area into a dream home for little money. Suvalsky, an interior designer who's been featured on HGTV, in the New York Times and...

The following is a round-up of news likely to affect stock prices today: Novartis (NVS) has raised its stake in eye-care company Alcon (ACL) to 77% by buying Nestlé's majority stake for $28.1 billion, the Swiss drug giant said Monday, and has set its sights on acquiring the rest. Novartis...

As the collapse of the housing bubble has rendered many of HGTV's biggest hits tragic relics of a bygone era, the network has been looking for ways to adapt and create content that acknowledge the changing market, and offers viewers ideas for how to deal with it.Enter Mike Aubrey, the star of...

Haverhill Home Staging says it's "North America's largest and fastest growing Home Staging Company." The point is debatable, but Haverhill is certainly North America's most prominent cable advertiser in home-staging: the art and science of sprucing homes to prepare them for sale. Haverhill, based...

Former 98 Degrees heartthrob Drew Lachey -- the brother of the much more famous Nick Lachey -- will be offering home owners a chance to win huge amounts of money to pay off their mortgages by competing in home renovation challenges.

High Rolling: Facebook is now a leading site for online gambling, attracting 200 million. Money Time: HGTV's latest show has families competing not for big vacations or home makeovers, but money to pay off their mortgages. Desperate times call for practical prizes. Making Money,...

On HGTV's hit series My House is Worth What?, real estate experts walk through homes that have undergone extensive renovations, reassuring the owner that that new luxury bathroom was actually a good investment and not just a self-indulgent waste of money.But before you take out a home equity loan...

One reader of my recent piece on HGTV's role in the housing bubble suggested that HGTV is out of touch with the realities of the new housing market, and continues to run shows like My House is Worth What? that focus on rapidly appreciating real estate prices and real estate as an "investment" that...

Economists will spend decades trying to assess what exactly caused the housing bubble and its collapse, but Marcus Thomas LLC creative director Jim Sollisch offers an explanation you probably haven't heard yet: Blame HGTV!If you watch shows like House Hunters, Designed to Sell and especially My...

HGTV's latest real estate show, The Property Shop, debuted on New Year's Day. It showcases Montreal estate agent Tatiana Londono as she looks to start her own real estate brokerage, juggling family obligations with the financial stress of entrepreneurship.Londono is pretty much a parody of a...