During the Great Depression, people who were forced to live in their cars were known as "Ford families." Today, they go by the far more impersonal name of the "vehicular homeless," and you can count 45-year-old Carey Fuller and her two daughters, 8 and 17, among them.

On Thursday, Congress moved to raise the loan ceiling for mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration on Thursday, despite some lawmakers' fears of artificially propping up the market.

There's a surprising new finding that says women get lousier mortgage rates than men, but not because of gender discrimination. It's because instead of shopping around, they rely on friends' recommendations.

With hedge fund managers' lucrative performance fees having taking a hit along with the rest of the economy, one town's real estate market is paying the price. Greenwich, Conn., where hedge funders had set up shop in droves after tiring of the Manhattan commute, has seen its uber-luxury home inventory skyrocket recently, the New York Post reports.

While the luxury home market is weathering the housing slump better than others, many mega-mansions -- the sort that are priced at $10 million and up -- still struggle to discover their true market value.