Foreclosure fiasco frustrates homeowners

Curtis Jones is among thousands of homeowners challenging bank efforts to foreclose on their homes, charging that lenders used shoddy paperwork. The fallout raises questions about the future health of the housing market.

Life Inc.: Real estate is less of a man’s world
If you’re making more than $250,000 in the commercial real estate industry, you’re most likely a man.

N.Y. Fed seeking money back from BofA
The New York Federal Reserve reportedly has joined forces with other big investors in an effort to force  Bank of America to buy back $47 billion in troubled mortgage-backed securities.

Mortgage investors muster to take on banks
A group of investors seeking to pressure lenders to buy back potentially billions of dollars in bad loans says it will soon deliver strong evidence banks have treated investors unfairly

Life Inc.: Architecture gives housing hope glimmer
Amid all the gloom and doom on the housing market comes a pinprick of light. A new survey from the American Institute of Architects shows that demand for design services is growing for the first time in almost three years.

A giant, green monument to the credit crunch

A Canadian artist has built an unusual tribute to the mortgage mess — a giant version of the iconic green house from the game of Monopoly.

A long road seen ahead on foreclosure mess

The U.S. foreclosure mess won’t be cleaned up quickly and could hurt the housing market, which is already a weak link in the economic recovery, regulators said Monday.

Trump bid to build at NY’s Jones Beach stalled

After promising in typical Trumpian modesty to replace a restaurant at a landmark New York beach with “the finest dining and banquet facility anywhere in the world,” Donald Trump seethes four years later that visitors still must pass what he calls “a rat-infested dump.”