Consumer

(MCT)—As tax return season starts, many of us are thinking of what we could have done last year to lower...

(MCT)—Residential contractors are hoping that tight-fisted consumers will decide they need a new bathroom. Or maybe it’s time for those...

While delinquencies and defaults slowly improve in the housing economy as a whole, FHA’s portfolio has not shared the same...

(MCT)—Winter has been relatively mild and virtually snow-free so far in many regions. That’s helped take the chill off utility...

Building on significant upward revisions to numbers for the previous two months, nationwide production of new single-family homes and apartments...

(MCT)—In a recent column, a newly minted Jersey Shore homeowner asked for help making his damp abode drier. He said...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke made the following speech at the 2012 National Association of Homebuilders International Builders' Show,...

We, the little people, are not alone. Or so say the gossip rags. The country is riddled with houses in...

(MCT)—We’ve all been there—staff meetings that seem longer than “Gone with the Wind.” Not only are they often bad for...

In the fourth quarter of 2011, fixed-rate loans accounted for more than 95 percent of refinance loans, based on the...