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The median price paid for a home in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area in May was $519,000, up 1.8% from $510,000 in April and up 29.8% from $400,000 in May 2012.

Standard and Poor’s finds some legislative and other uncertainties in the municipal housing sector, but the company expects ratings in it to remain fairly stable through at least the next 12 months.

A trio of real estate investment trusts have separately entered into different kinds of debt transactions, and Wells Fargo is providing the financing in two of them.

Thinking about my own father and about my role as a father to my three children.

Ask any of us in real estate-related businesses to describe the perfect closing experience and you’ll likely get minor variations on this theme.

Shaner Hotel Group has created Shaner Hospitality Finance LLC, a REIT which will provide equity and debt for refincings and purchases of existing loans as well as preferred equity investments.

Barclays is forecasting a year-to-year 9.7% rise in U.S. home prices by the end of 2013 and a 7.2% increase in 2014, based on first-quarter data.

As of March 31, seniors, which for this report are defined as those 62 or older, held $3.25 trillion in home equity and had properties worth $4.32 trillion.

The inaugural International Federation of Finance Museums meeting aims to inspire innovation in the promotion of financial literacy globally and engage the media, academics, policymakers and industry participants.

A MacroMonitor analysis of banking activity during the past few years indicates the steady growth of mobile financial services is rearranging the transaction choices made by most households.