The Warren Group has revised its September Massachusetts foreclosure start figures, acknowledging that the totals it initially released were incomplete. more

If planners and architects had their way, when people start building large residential projects again they would look something like the Preserve at Rolling Greens retirement community proposed for Route 102 in North Kingstown. more

You may have seen headlines last week about the Federal Housing Administration needing a taxpayer “bailout” by the Treasury and wondered: Uh oh. Is the FHA heading down the fiscal drain like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have required billions in federal assistance just to stay in business? more

At a time when small and simple are fashionable, the owner of the Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth has doubled down on large and opulent. more

With the House and Senate back on Capitol Hill for the lame-duck session, preliminary negotiations aimed at keeping the country from careening off the “fiscal cliff” began in earnest this past week. more

U.S. banks that have been earning record profits from home loans are adding or transferring thousands of staff to catch up with demand for refinancing after shortages blocked homeowners from getting lower rates. more

Bristol County, Mass., foreclosure starts rose 16.4 percent in October compared with the same period last year. At the same time, the number of completed foreclosures fell, The Warren Group said Monday. more

What would happen to home values in the event that popular real estate deductions for mortgage interest and local property taxes were cut significantly? It’s an issue you’re likely to hear more about as Congress and the Obama administration wade deeper into “fiscal cliff” and comprehensive tax reform negotiations heading into 2013. more

The Corvias Group has opened a new headquarters in Cary, N.C., for its student housing division Corvias Campus Living, the company announced Tuesday. more

Picerne Military Housing, a division of the Corvias Group, has closed a $72 million public-private partnership deal with the U.S. Army to build on-post barracks. more