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Mortgage fraud rose sharply last year after steep declines in the two previous years as the real estate market crashed, The Wall Street Journal reported. Losses from mortgage fraud, ranging from identity theft to falsified credit reports, surged 17% in 2009 from a year earlier, The Wall Street...

A group of investors led by Colony Capital may pass on the high-profile Xanadu real estate project in New Jersey to creditors, The Wall Street Journal reported. The clock is ticking towards an Aug. 9 to meet a deadline set by creditors including Capmark Financial Group, The Wall Street Journal...

Move over, gluttonous U.S. homeowners. Australians now eclipse Americans in building the largest homes, Reuters has reported. What, you thought Americans are the only ones who gobble up square footage? Australian homes have expanded in size an average 10% in the last decade to 2,310 square feet...

Welcome to WalletPop's new book club, where we will have an author-in-residence to give us a peek into a new book and be on hand all month to answer reader questions. Our inaugural writer is real estate expert Alison Rogers, who was the founding editor of the New York Post real estate section and a...

Welcome to WalletPop's new book club, where we will have an author-in-residence to give us a peek into a new book and be on hand all month to answer reader questions. Our inaugural writer is real estate expert Alison Rogers, who was the founding editor of the New York Post real estate section and a...