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Living Very Large; Shooting ranges, an indoor tennis court, a bedroom bigger than many houses: For a small cadre of very wealthy owners, building big is back. A bird's-eye view of some of the mega mansions going up across the country. WSJ.com

The latest project of Hyatt hotel heir Anthony Pritzker is a 49,300-square-foot building designed by an architecture firm in Paris. It involves a small army of specialized consultants and boasts amenities like a bowling alley, hairdressing ...
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Banks Still Looking for Closure WSJ.com

Shelling out a $25 billion penalty is certainly painful. But it is something bank-stock investors may be able to grin and bear. The reason: The foreclosure-abuse settlement agreed on Thursday among banks, state attorneys general and the ...
Bernanke renews push for foreclosed rentals; Rental plan could help housing imbalance, Fed chief says MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday made a renewed push for programs to convert foreclosed homes into rental units to help revive the housing market.
Windows Reveal the True Housing Market WSJ Blogs

ORLANDO -- Maybe the clearest way to look at the housing market is through a nice glass window. Susan Marvin, president of Marvin Windows and Doors, a small, privately held family company based in Warroad, Minn., wants to believe that the ...
Bernanke: U.S. Needs Policies to Help Housing Recovery WSJ Blogs

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Friday called for new policies to help the nation's housing market, continuing a push by some at the central bank for additional measures to assist the troubled sector.
Turning Home Equity Into 401(k) Money; Powell: There are big risks and big reward to leveraging strategy. SmartMoney.com

The financially savvy are truly different from the rest of us. Know why? They get to use the tax code to their advantage in ways most other folks can't or don't or won't.
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Settlement Lifts Hopes For Housing Recovery WSJ.com

The $25 billion settlement with banks over alleged foreclosure abuses will provide financial relief to an estimated one million at-risk borrowers, raising new hopes for an economy still hurting from the mortgage bust.
Madison Square townhomes to be razed, replaced with new low-income housing WSJM

Press File PhotoBoards cover the windows and doors of several townhomes on Umatilla Street SE. The homes are among dozens of low-income housing units to be razed and rebuilt in the area around Hall Street and Madison Avenue SE.
Fledgling housing recovery has a long way to go; It looks better than 2011 but then, that was the worst year on record MarketWatch

ORLANDO, Fla. (MarketWatch) — The housing market will see a modest rebound in 2012, but given the depths to which the market fell in 2011 the recovery will not feel all that good to those in the real estate business, economists said ...
Developer says his project to renovate four Grand Rapids elementary schools fills a housing demand WSJM

File photo | Mlive Media GroupOjibway Development LLC plans to convert Lexington Elementary Schools in 25 apartment units. GRAND RAPIDS – A Southeast Michigan developer who plans to convert four Grand Rapids public elementary schools into ...
More refinancing help may be on the way; Plus, an unconventional tip for screening renters MarketWatch

Realty Q&A is a weekly column in which Lew Sichelman, a nationally syndicated columnist who has been covering the housing market for more than 40 years, responds to readers’ questions on real estate.
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Canadian Trade Surplus Signals Shift WSJ.com

OTTAWA—Canada's trade surplus with the rest of the world hit its highest level in more than three years in December, Statistics Canada said Friday, signaling that Canada's economy is shifting away from a reliance on consumer spending and ...
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$25 Billion Bank Job; The Barker Gang would have loved this housing caper. WSJ.com

Obama Administration officials and various state Attorneys General looked gleeful yesterday announcing a $25 billion settlement with five big tobacco—er, banks—and why not? The bankers coughed up shareholder money to settle a ...
Builder Economists Push Back the Bottom of the Housing Market…Again WSJ Blogs

ORLANDO — Every year around this time, tens of thousands of housing industry professionals gather at the National Association of Home Builders' convention, usually held in Florida, to talk shop and network with other builders, marketers and ...
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Pact Followed Months of Bargaining WSJ.com

Before a historic $25 billion housing settlement came together, it nearly fell apart. It took months of back-channel conversations between an Obama administration official and a reluctant attorney general from New York—and some timely ...

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