After nearly a year of multimillion-dollar renovations incorporating green energy and employee-wellness features, Health Care REIT Inc.

Thieves punched through a concrete block wall and bored into a thick metal safe early Monday to steal gold and diamonds from a Country Club Plaza jewelry store.It was like the Mafia, said Simon Zouein, the owner of Vinca Jewelry at 4801 Jefferson St.

International buyers have helped buttress Florida's real estate market with 22 percent of all foreign clients nationally choosing property in the Sunshine State.

Mike and Jessica Gromek had their Scotch Plains home inspected before purchase, and they say the inspector overlooked chimney problems, above, resulting in $18,500 in repairs.

At a time when most builders have put down their tools, Pulte Group Inc. has started a 184-unit town house development overlooking the Passaic River in Garfield.

The Victorian Government will probe Fairfax Media over its real-estate junkets program, after the company decided to extend the controversial free-trips scheme into 2011.

When we checked this spring on the Brien Center purchase of Mt. Carmel Church on Fenn Street in Pittsfield, Catherine Doherty, Brien's chief executive officer, cautiously described the upcoming sale.

Then came the war of the appraisers. The week before Adamczyk was scheduled to close, a lending company turned down the buyer's loan because the house's appraisal included a discussion of the cancer cluster that state health officials have declared in the community.

Home sales fell steeply in July after the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, but the D.C. housing market didn't fare as badly as the country as a whole.

The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.

T he Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has announced significant changes to the designations of real estate agents and to the education requirements to become a "Realtor." Curr ently all are designated as either a "Real Estate Salesperson" or a "Real Estate Broker." The new designations will be "Broker" and "Managing ...

The game plan: Obsbaum and Curotto had the house professionally photographed. They listed it on the multiple listing service, advertised it on the Internet and held an open house.

Did greedy mortgage brokers, real estate agents and financial gurus kill the economy? Or did the economy kill the brokers? Are there any benefits left to home ownership? Not according to Time Magazine.

A former Simon Property Group executive has agreed to pay $766,000 to the Indianapolis mall developer to settle a lawsuit it filed against him.

For more than $1 billion, you can buy Christopher Kennedy's Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 15: Coming HomeIn this final chapter of "A World of Conflict," Kevin Sites returns home to the U.S., only to confirm what he suspected -- that in the year that he was gone little had changed.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 14: Israel-Hezbollah WarThe war between Israel and Hezbollah shook the landscape in the Middle East.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 13: Sri LankaKevin Sites covered Sri Lanka as violence erupted between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, pushing a nation with so much to lose back to the brink of all-out war. In rebel-held territory Sites interviewed Tiger fighters about their tactics and reported on the many effects of war still seen in the region.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 12: Nepal and KashmirKevin Sites covered Nepal during a time of sweeping political change that followed mass nationwide protests, forcing the autocratic King to cede power.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 11: Child BrideIn Afghanistan, Kevin Sites met a 12-year-old girl named Gulsoma, whose incredible story of resilience resonated with millions of people worldwide. She was only six years old when she was sold to a neighbor family in Kandahar as a child bride.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter 10: AfghanistanReporting from Afghanistan in spring 2006, more than four years after the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban, Kevin Sites found that war is not over in the country.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter Nine: ChechnyaIn Chechnya during the winter of 2005-2006, Kevin Sites reported on a region still reeling from lingering conflict between Russia and Islamic separatists. The conflict engulfed Chechnya in the 1990s, and even now, half of the population is yet to return. Those that have eke out a living amid the rubble.

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter Eight: Iran

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone - Chapter Seven: IsraelIn Israel, Kevin Sites interviewed Kinneret Boosany, a victim of a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv cafe in 2002.