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• The Shrinking Second Home

  Developers of high-end vacation homes are building smaller, less expensive houses in resort communities as home sales slump in major markets across the country and inventories of unsold homes rise.

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  April 1, 2013

  Chinese Housing Prices Rise Despite New Curbs

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  Anxious buyers and sellers filled city offices in Beijing and Shanghai on Monday looking for ways to fend off new property-sales restrictions, even as fresh data showed how difficult it will be for Chinese officials to rein in surging home ...

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  March 18, 2013

  China's Housing Prices Rise Further

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  SHANGHAI—New-home prices in China rose sharply in February from January, prompting speculation that Beijing will crack down further on property speculation.

• July 26, 2012

  Smaller Hampton Buys; Homes Priced Under $1 Million See Spike in Sales, Driving Down Median Prices

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  Home sales rose sharply in the Hamptons this spring to the highest levels in years, but the increase didn't include the huge estates and oceanfront mansions favored by the very rich.

• April 4, 2012

  As Home Rents Head Higher, Owning Regains Its Appeal

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  Climbing rents for apartments are combining with a continued decline in home prices to push once-reluctant home buyers into finally taking the plunge, say economists and real-estate agents, helping what appears to be a good start to the ...

• October 13, 2011

  Harlem Attracts Post-Slump Buyers

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  Yan Feng, a pediatrician from Beijing, just paid $2.3 million for a townhouse on Convent Avenue in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Harlem, bidding $100,000 more than the asking price after losing out on another deal for a house down ...

• October 8, 2011

  Canadians Warm to Phoenix; House Bargains, Greenback's Woes Draw Northern Buyers Into Sun Belt Markets

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  Canadians are on a Sun Belt shopping spree. Phoenix and other warm-weather cities that have seen real-estate prices crater are newly popular among Canadians looking for second homes or investment properties, brokers and buyers say.

• September 16, 2011

  Europe on Sale; The debt crisis has one silver lining: Falling prices for vacation homes in Greece, Spain, Portugal and even Italy.

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  That quintessential European villa—with a pool and maybe a lemon tree and a tennis court out back—is getting a lot cheaper. Spain, Portugal, Greece and, to a lesser extent, Italy, all immersed in the European debt crisis, are experiencing ...