Turning Green Into Gold With Lawn Care

A beautiful lawn can add serious value to your home, increasing your home's price by 5%. Landscaping improvements often offer 100% or more ROI.

Homebuyer Optimism Increases in July

Housing sentiment inched up as Fannie Mae’s index rose to 71.8. Job loss fears fell, home price and mortgage rate outlooks improved, but buying conditions declined.

A Mansion So Big, It Spans Two Towns

One of America’s most historic homes, a Vanderbilt-family home that played a key role in the creation of the League of Nations, is so large that it spans two towns. It is the largest shingle-style home in the country, and its landscaping was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, who also designed New

Mortgage Rates at Lowest Level in Months

Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to 6.63%, the lowest since April, from 6.72% last week, while 15-year rates dropped to 5.75% from 5.85%.