Are Tough Appraisal Rules Holding Back Housing? - Wall Street Journal
says that tough appraisal rules, more than stringent underwriting guidelines, have made it much harder to get mortgages for million-dollar homes. Those homes don’t sell often as it is, and banks are requiring a tighter radius and narrower time

The $50 Million Price Point - ninemsn
price tag close to $50 million has an impact on wealthy buyers. It represents both value and prestige. There are fewer than three dozen properties between $45 million and $55 million publicly listed, and only six such homes Billion-Dollar

Listed: Elegant Comfort In Ski Country - Forbes
Million-dollar homes in Edwards, Colo., a tony enclave about a dozen miles from Vail, are seldom described as understated. But the adjective fits this tasteful four-bedroom, four-bathroom cabin whose shingled roof and wood-plank facade give it an air

Innovative and dramatic kitchen lighting adds flash to - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer Menton Hanging Shade, $1,775, purchased through designers. The innovative lighting design first started appearing with stunning effect in million-dollar homes three to five years ago. Now, it's turning up in showrooms and model homes

Homes sales fall in BR area - Baton Rouge Advocate
Realtors sold 417 homes in the Baton Rouge metro area in February, 6 percent fewer than the 443 sold during February 2009. The dollar volume fell 8 percent to $80.8 million last month, compared to $87.4 million in February 2009. The figures, compiled

Bankrupt Salander Pleads Guilty in New York Art Fraud - BusinessWeek
and to Europe and owned multi-million dollar homes. Homes for Sale Salander lived with his family in an Upper East Side townhouse and on a 66-acre property in Millbrook, New York, that has a tennis court and baseball diamond, which the family still

Start Real Estate Investing: Using Junkers to Build - PRLog (free press release)
My husband and I have been buying and reselling homes for many years, and although we now are shopping for properties in the quarter million dollar range, we started out like most successful investors--by buying junkers. In some ways, buying junker

Gulf Pines Hospital Future Uncertain - WJHG-TV
Surrounded by upscale homes, with a a million dollar view of the Bay, St. Joe Company deeded the land to the City of Port St. Joe in 1940, to be used for a hospital. But the deed contained a "reverter clause" that stated if the property ceased to be