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As it presses forward with downtown revitalization, the city of Aiken, S.C., is also considering a crackdown on abandoned and distressed properties, some located mere blocks from the heart of downtown.

Laura Whittall-Scherfee will direct a California agency that finances affordable housing.

Prices of single-family homes in Santa Cruz County, Calif., soared to new records in May as the number of sales shrank.

More than $106,000 was transferred into the Cheboygan County, Mich., general fund from the treasurer's office from the sales of tax foreclosures in the county.

It's taken a decade, an oil spill and a national recession, but now could be the time for those who've waited until conditions improved to sell their home or land in South Mississippi.

Demand for single-family homes in the Inland Empire has fueled the strongest building activity in nearly a decade, though experts say the recent spike is nowhere near the intensity and volume of the mid-2000s.

The company will also gain its first branches in New Mexico after it buys Peoples Inc.

Another luxury condo at Manhattan's One57 is scheduled for a foreclosure auction — the second time in a month that a property seizure is being sought at the Billionaires' Row tower following a mortgage default.

Canadian officials are working to slow a rapid rise in home prices that's being attributed to tight inventory levels in the country's largest cities and is threatening to create a housing bubble.

Statewide home sales hit a record pace during May, edging up from April and besting the previous year's level.

The median price of a single-family home in Marin County, Calif., hit a new high in May to $1.25 million.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to property-rights advocates, ruling against four siblings who said they were unconstitutionally barred from building on a Wisconsin riverfront lot.

Casey Anthony's parents are fighting back against a bank trying to foreclose on their home, court records show.

The billionaire investor agreed to buy shares at a deep discount and provide a fresh credit line for the Canadian mortgage company, tapping a formula he used to prop up lenders from Goldman Sachs to Bank of America.

City commissioners approved a deal Wednesday aimed at turning around two beachside rental homes that have churned out lawlessness and code violations, but the neighbors who have begged for help are worried the trouble isn't going to stop.

In summer 2007, the Los Angeles County median home price hit an all-time high of $550,000. It soon plunged as the housing bubble burst and the national economy crashed.

Homebuyers went on a shopping spree in Miami-Dade in May — and snapped up enough houses to set a new record.

Apartments in Albuquerque are in high demand as occupancy rates remain strong and rent continues to climb.

More homes went on the market last month than in any since 2008, a sign that the logjam that's characterized the Portland-area market in recent years could be breaking.

Metro Atlanta housing got a healthy dose of same-old, same-old in two new reports.