housing crash

Jerilee Wei never expected to be living next to a cow pasture when she bought her home in Lakeland, Fla., in 2007. In her upscale community, newly constructed houses were selling for between $300,000 and $425,000. Then one morning she woke up and found some cattle had moved in.

Bravo's hit show Million Dollar Listing is back for a third season tonight, and more than three-quarters of a million viewers are setting the Tivo's and curling up with the latest issue of House Beautiful. The show is focused on the sturm und drang surrounding three hot young real estate agents'...