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Bernanke: Housing Not Yet Out of the Woods

The improving housing market is "far from being out of the woods," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday, arguing that overly tight lending standards are part of the problem.

Spain Suspends Home Evictions for Most Needy

Spain approved measures on Thursday to help the most needy families facing eviction, a growing problem in the recession-bound nation highlighted last week by the suicide of a woman whose home bailiffs came to seize.

COLUMN: After Sandy Do You Still Want a Beach House?

The scenes rolling in from the New Jersey shore are devastating, and not just to the people whose homes were destroyed. Also damaged are the "retire with a water view" dreams of others who had aspired to vacation property and may have been thinking about beach real estate - until they saw what a storm like Sandy can do.